EMC gives Data Domain shareholders more time to decide, but the biggest news this week could come from the FTC.

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

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.

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.

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

EMC's top data storage official can go to work for rival HP — on one condition.

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.

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

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

The long-awaited successor to Windows Storage Server 2003 is finally on the way.

A recent move by the software giant suggests that it thinks the future of storage is in the cloud.

HP has lured away EMC's top data storage executive, but EMC is suing to halt the move.

Sun's Open Storage program was its strongest business in the March quarter — just in time for Oracle to figure out what to do with the program.

After a tough first quarter, EMC CEO Joe Tucci waxes about the outlook for IT spending and sizes up the company's new competitive threat from the merger of Oracle and Sun.

A combination of the two companies would be well positioned for Fibre Channel over Ethernet, Broadcom says.

Oracle's sudden move into the data storage business has industry analysts wondering — and storage vendors on edge.

Between IBM, Sun and Cisco, turmoil in the server market appears to be altering the competitive landscape in the data storage business.

Merger talks between Sun and IBM have apparently fallen apart, at least for now.

IBM's takeover of Sun could be announced as soon as Monday — but it could take much longer to resolve antitrust and other issues. Update: IBM-Sun talks could be on 'brink of collapse.'