Wall Street analysts had good things to say about NetApp and Brocade this week — and they also had some interesting things to say about merger prospects for both companies.
The long-awaited partnership between the IT giants finally arrives — and appears to make a couple of competitors uneasy.
EMC plans a new Atmos — and a possible partnership with Cisco and VMware.
As part of Open-FCoE, Intel is leading an effort to make FCoE native to Linux and is literally giving away its code to accomplish that.
Anyone wondering whether Ethernet might be the data storage fabric of the future should look no further than Brocade's plans to offer 100GbE next year.
Emulex's single-chip converged network adapters finally arrive, but the company insists it's not late to market.
EMC dropped some new product hints on its quarterly earnings call this morning.
It wasn't all clouds and SSDs at Storage Networking World this week.
IBM, HDS, Sun and 3PAR are among the vendors with big product announcements this week.
Bandwidth and data integrity issues could limit enterprise use of external storage clouds.
IBM and Symantec are the latest storage vendors to launch massive clustered systems for enterprise cloud environments.
Signs that Brocade and NetApp could be acquired could mean more upheaval for the data storage industry.
It's possible to get started on Fibre Channel over Ethernet now, but most experts advise to move cautiously.
Dell adds to its growing data storage portfolio with a new low-end NAS offering powered by Microsoft.
Hitachi and BlueArc team up on a new NAS offering, but EMC and NetApp don't have to worry just yet.
After three straight quarterly declines, IDC is seeing some hope for data storage sales.
EMC's private cloud strategy includes many things — just not the highly anticipated partnership with Cisco.
Dell's evolution as a data center and storage player continues with a new Ethernet and FCoE switch deal.
WAN optimization promises huge gains in network performance, but how does it accomplish that?
Just a month after losing Data Domain to EMC, NetApp names a new CEO — but says it doesn't need to make any acquisitions.
Cisco is no longer pursuing InfiniBand, but other vendors and analysts see continued growth and opportunities in the IB market.
NetApp is the first storage vendor to offer an end-to-end FCoE solution — and the company also predicts that the technology will eventually overtake Fibre Channel.
At last week's EMC Forum, the data storage giant had a number of announcements on virtual data centers, deduplication and automated storage tiering.
Yesterday's EMC Forum in Long Beach contained some big news about a new virtual data center product that will be unveiled soon.
NetApp's sales are so far faring better than the rest of the data storage industry. And the latest in the Cisco-Brocade battle.
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