NetApp, Cisco and VMware Deal May Be Coming
NetApp may have a plan for keeping up with rivals EMC and HP in the race for integrated stacks.
NetApp may have a plan for keeping up with rivals EMC and HP in the race for integrated stacks.
One early FCoE adopter alleviated a power crunch by moving to converged storage and data networks.
QLogic and Emulex have a new competitor in the converged network adapter (CNA) market.
Dell made a big move today into high-speed networking and storage and network management.
A three-year deal extends the vendors' commitment to deeper integration, joint sales and marketing endeavors on cloud-based storage and virtualization apps.
Symantec is now offering its security and storage management tools through Amazon's cloud services.
NAS and iSCSI lead the way as the storage market posts sequential growth in the third quarter for the first time this year.
NetApp posts strong financial results and says it isn't afraid of the new VMware-Cisco-EMC partnership.
Not only might NAS replace SAN in the coming world of Ethernet-based storage, but the distinctions between the two might also disappear.
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.