EMC taps QLogic for 8Gbps FC switches March 17, 2010 -- QLogic's enterprise-class 5800V Series of 8Gbps Fibre Channel stackable switches will be sold through EMC's Select program.
Oracle-Sun ends HDS partnership March 5, 2010 -- Oracle has reportedly decided to end the long-standing storage partnership between Sun Microsystems and Hitachi Data Systems.
Analysts weigh in on HP-Cisco breakup February 26, 2010 -- The IT industry is a week removed from the not-so-sudden end to HP's strategic relationship with Cisco, and now consultants are weighing in with a look at how it could affect customers and the IT world.
HP to resell QLogic's enterprise FC switches February 19, 2010 -- HP and QLogic this week announced that HP will resell QLogic's enterprise-class, stackable, 8Gbps Fibre Channel SAN switches.
HP refreshes entry-level, LeftHand SANs February 17, 2010 -- HP is slapping a new naming scheme on its entry-level MSA and midrange LeftHand SANs in conjunction with a round of hardware and software upgrades that improve performance, scalability and capacity utilization.
Overland debuts iSCSI array February 16, 2010 -- Overland Storage today announced the SnapServer SAN S2000, Overland's first pure iSCSI SAN array.
Guidelines for FCoE deployment February 8, 2010 -- Network convergence will enable enterprises to preserve their existing investments in Fibre Channel storage, reduce data center costs and complexity, and simplify network management.
SAN management user case study, part 4 February 1, 2010 -- The last installment in our series illustrates the inadequacy of traditional SAN management tools in large, heterogeneous storage networks.
SAN management user case study, part 3 January 29, 2010 -- The third installment in our 4-part series, written by members of the wikibon.org community, focuses on the need for end-to-end SAN monitoring tools for large, heterogeneous storage networks.
SAN management user case study, part 2 January 28, 2010 -- The second installment in our four-part series on how a SAN manager solved his SAN management issues focuses on performance monitoring and cost justification.
SAN management user case study, part 1 January 27, 2010 -- This is the first installment in a four-part series on how a SAN manager at a major U.S. credit card firm solved his SAN management challenges in a storage network with more than 450TB of capacity.
Cisco beefs up network-based SAN services January 14, 2010 -- Cisco today released the Data Mobility Manager (DMM) migration appliance and the Storage Services Node-16 (SSN-16), a new 16-port line card that turns the Cisco MDS 9000 family of Fibre Channel storage switches into a platform for delivering storage services to any device on the fabric.
The state of the iSCSI market December 21, 2009 -- The IT world is driven by change in the various technologies that affect the overall environment: networking, servers, storage systems, operating systems and applications. These can be seen as accelerators, which in turn are moderated by the conservatism of the IT profession: "Don't break something that's working." Clearly, the past decade has been one of tumultuous change.
EMC adds 8Gbps Fibre Channel, FICON support to Symmetrix V-Max December 17, 2009 -- EMC has added new features to its high-end Symmetrix V-Max systems for the second time is as many weeks with the announcement of 8Gbps Fibre Channel host and FICON connectivity, new thin provisioning features and replication enhancements.
Dell ships 10GbE EqualLogic arrays, networking gear December 10, 2009 -- Dell continues to beat the drum for 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) as the underlying fabric for next generation data centers with today's debut of 10GbE networking products, a pair of new EqualLogic disk arrays, and infrastructure management software.
Highlights from Supercomputing 09 November 18, 2009 -- A number of storage vendors used this week's Supercomputing 09 conference in Portland to announce new products or partner agreements.
NEC adds iSCSI model to D-Series arrays October 15, 2009 -- NEC's North American storage division is trying to tap into tight IT budgets with the recent debut of an iSCSI SAN array, as well as thin provisioning technology for its Fibre Channel disk arrays.
Cisco launches UCS rack servers, CNAs October 9, 2009 -- Cisco is diving deeper into the data center with the additions of rack-mount servers, memory extension technology, and a new line of converged network adapters (CNAs) to its Unified Computing System (UCS).
