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.

Are Cisco's latest storage switch innovations enough to reverse market share losses to Brocade?

Big Blue deepens its commitment to Fibre Channel over Ethernet and converged data center networks with its latest networking deals.

The Emulex-Broadcom takeover battle is over.

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

Broadcom raises its hostile bid for Emulex, but sets a deadline for getting a deal done.

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.

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.