With no competition on the horizon, the SSD maker's dominance will likely continue into next year.

Recent steep drops in the price of 10Gb Ethernet NICs mean that Fibre Channel's decade-long dominance will soon be over.

Already the best-performing storage vendor this year, Dell hopes to add to its story with new entry-level arrays.

Mergers, hostile takeovers, turf battles, high-profile defections... We look at what's behind the turmoil in the IT industry — and what it means for the future of storage.

Data Domain once again says it favors NetApp over rival suitor EMC, but don't count out EMC just yet.

On one level, the bidding war between EMC and NetApp for Data Domain appears to be a battle of East and West coast tech cultures.

Symantec, Dell and Hitachi were about the only bright spots for the data storage market in the first quarter.

Rather than hit the acquisition trail for deduplication technology, Dell is choosing to partner instead.

An SEC filing reveals that NetApp raised its bid for Data Domain twice before merger talks became public — and that Data Domain had interest from another company besides EMC.

The bidding war for data deduplication specialist Data Domain may not be over just yet.

The next move in the bidding war for Data Domain appears to be up to EMC.

Big Blue adds FCoE adapter technology from QLogic and Brocade to its servers as converged data center network technology begins to appear in the marketplace. And HP is getting in on the act too.

NetApp's proposal to acquire data deduplication specialist Data Domain has turned into a bidding war.

The latest version of Sun's open source ZFS file system includes automated management of SSDs. And OpenSolaris gets new networking and virtualization features.

HP and other data storage vendors are helping users replicate to different storage product families to save on disaster recovery costs.

Hitachi Data Systems has a 'big announcement' coming — and the high-end storage vendor is dropping a big hint about what the news might be.

As Google reportedly nears the release of its cloud storage service, it could stand to learn a lesson or two from the enterprise storage king.

IBM is adding solid state drives and new management software to its DS8000 data storage arrays.

In a shocker for the data storage industry, NetApp will acquire data deduplication pioneer Data Domain.

Data storage vendors are forming partnerships and repositioning themselves in hopes of getting a piece of the electronic medical records stimulus spending.

The difficult data storage market could take a toll on NetApp, according to analysts. And a look at winners and losers in the storage sector after a trying first quarter.

Larry Ellison says Oracle will hang on to Sun's hardware business, including the data storage and tape lines.

Windows Storage Server will apparently be folded into future versions of Windows Server, but the 2008 version released this week includes some nifty upgrades for storage users.

While just a tiny part of a $13 billion company, Sun's Open Storage program exemplifies everything the company had hoped to achieve in its turnaround efforts.

EMC has won the first round in its battle to keep its top data storage executive from defecting to HP.