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As Brocade builds momentum for its vision of unified networks in the data center, the company continues to roll out real-world hardware to support users suffering the limitations of existing fabrics as they deploy virtual server and storage infrastructures.

VMware has announced a new tool for disaster-recovery management and automation in virtual server environments with the recent launch of VMware Site Recovery Manager, a software product that works with VMware Infrastructure, VMware VirtualCenter, and replication software from third parties to automate disaster-recovery planning, testing, and execution processes.

The Taneja Group research and consulting firm has produced a report, titled Next Generation Fibre Channel Storage Systems Market Forecast: 2007–2011, that provides market size estimates/predictions, as well as a taxonomy that describes various segments of the Fibre Channel disk array market.

Data Domain has moved from dual-core to quad-core processors to deliver a new data de-duplication system that boasts a 75% boost in performance, more capacity, and extended support for remote office replication.

Hewlett-Packard plans to deliver in the fourth quarter the HP StorageWorks 9100 Extreme Data Storage System (ExDS9100), a high-performance, high-capacity NAS system specifically built to house and serve file-level data for businesses with multi-petabyte storage requirements, such as Web 2.0, digital media and other large enterprises.

iSCSI SANs provide a solid foundation for virtual servers.

Here are 10 technologies to improve storage efficiency and reduce power consumption.

Users should consider software-based technologies such as thin provisioning, storage virtualization, and tiered storage to make primary storage more energy-efficient.