Category: SAN

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.” This in turn is propelled by IT organizations’…

In the latest sign that SanDisk is serious about strengthening its enterprise flash storage portfolio, the company announced that it had just acquired Schooner Information Technology for an undisclosed amount. “Schooner represents another step in SanDisk’s expansion in the enterprise space,” said SanDisk’s Greg Goelz, vice president and general manager of the Enterprise Storage Solutions…

The leading solutions for CIOs struggling to achieve maximum data center efficiency come down to resource utilization, consolidation, and virtualization. Often these solutions involve a full-scale IT transformation that requires re-designing basic data center infrastructure. As a result, SAN and LAN technologies are now in the IT limelight along with the notion of a converged…

Brocade announced today that its 10Gbps converged network adapters (CNAs) have been qualified, and are available from, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), IBM and NetApp, putting Brocade roughly on par with CNA competitors Emulex and QLogic in terms of OEM design wins. (Brocade’s CNAs are still in the qualification stage at HP.) Brocade’s single-chip CNAs…

Although SANs are pervasive in larger enterprises, many small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have yet to take the plunge and are still tethered to direct-attached storage (DAS) configurations. Those companies are missing out on a number of benefits, including efficient management of data and storage resources, cost- effective capacity planning, improved asset utilization, and reduced…