One early FCoE adopter alleviated a power crunch by moving to converged storage and data networks.

Not only might NAS replace SAN in the coming world of Ethernet-based storage, but the distinctions between the two might also disappear.

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.

Bandwidth and data integrity issues could limit enterprise use of external storage clouds.

It's possible to get started on Fibre Channel over Ethernet now, but most experts advise to move cautiously.

WAN optimization promises huge gains in network performance, but how does it accomplish that?

Cisco is no longer pursuing InfiniBand, but other vendors and analysts see continued growth and opportunities in the IB market.

At last week's EMC Forum, the data storage giant had a number of announcements on virtual data centers, deduplication and automated storage tiering.

BlueArc and Panasas are also among the storage vendors working to solve the problem of I/O constraints caused by server virtualization.

The market for WAN optimization is maturing, but companies like Riverbed and Blue Coat are still going strong.

NetEx says its HyperIP protocol can restore data quickly from remote replication sites.

Storage and IT luminaries gathered last week to discuss the future, and they agreed that it's in cloud and virtual environments.

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

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.

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.

At EMC World, the data storage giant and AT&T offer proof that the cloud is ready for enterprises, but analysts and users may still need some convincing.

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

A small information management services company turned to DataCore and Citrix for an affordable storage and virtual server environment that worked.

The Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) protocol can ease the pain of iSCSI data storage management.

One company turned to iSCSI, OpenSolaris and Linux, commodity hardware and even solid state drives to control data storage costs.

To manage the data produced by one of the world's most ambitious video surveillance projects, the city of Chicago turned to IBM.

Dedupe, iSCSI and cloud storage are likely to be big this year as cost-cutting measures, but the rise of solid state drives could buck the trend toward frugality.

Cloud computing may be ill-defined and over-hyped, but for storage users, it could represent a new way of looking at storage.

A California medical facility has improved its regulatory compliance and e-discovery efforts with help from iSCSI and data encryption.

Chumash Casino Resort put together a state-of-the-art video surveillance system, with megapixel cameras and HD storage from Pivot3.