Storage start-ups fail to set the world on fire  How IT fell for
file storage growth myths  High performance access to file
storage   Meanwhile, block storage SAN re-invention companies,
such as 3PAR and Compellent have done better, showing up the
lack of customer need for a panacea for the problem of having
too many files and too many large files. The panacea isn't
needed because the general problem doesn't exist.  It was not
supposed to be like this. Several years ago, engineers,
marketeers and entrepreneurs could see a file storage problem
looming. The media industry's move from analogue to digital
storage was going to create millions, or even billions, of image
files, music files and movie files. E-mail use was spreading
like a pandemic with overflowing mail boxes, and millions of
attachments, many duplicated. Collaborative software like Lotus
Domino and SharePoint was causing millions more files to be
created.  There was a general and continual rise in the use of
unstructured information that needed to b