At EMC World, the data storage giant expanded its dedupe offerings, held a love fest with Cisco and VMware, and CEO Joe Tucci answered some tough questions.

Some analysts say the answer is yes — and perhaps sooner than you think.

With commercial implementations and community projects on the rise, analysts nonetheless see barriers to widespread enterprise adoption of open source data storage technologies.

Even in tough times, there's more to data storage purchasing decisions than saving money.

GE thinks it's the company to finally make holographic storage technology realize its promise.

Big Blue will resell Brocade's Ethernet switches, but claims it's not retaliating against Cisco.

Storage hardware sales may be suffering, but customers are still opening their wallets for some data storage technologies.

Cisco's new server has the potential to recast both the data storage and server virtualization markets.

SandForce claims it has overcome the performance and reliability limitations of MLC-based flash data storage.

Brocade unveils new FCoE switches and CNAs — and waxes about the future of Fibre Channel and its competition with Cisco.

QLogic sees Fibre Channel over Ethernet arriving in servers and storage by the end of the year — thanks to its converged network adapter (CNA) technology.

Commentary: What a 4,000-year-old Egyptian obelisk can teach us about data backup, archiving and preservation of our history — and why it's critical that we get started now.

Steve Wozniak's new gig at Fusion-io involves developing flash drives for everything from SANs to PC gaming.

The SAN vendor automatically migrates inactive data off pricey SSDs to less expensive disk.

Thanks to EMC and other top data storage vendors, STEC's solid state drive sales are 'through the roof.'

Sun Microsystems is proposing a new flash data storage form factor that could save users a ton of space in servers and storage arrays.

Sun Microsystems is turning over object-based storage development for its SAM-QFS file system to the OpenSolaris community in a move away from a standard that advocates see as the future of data storage technology.

The POSIX file system interface isn't up to the task of managing today's data, resulting in costly fixes for users to solve problems like data integrity and regulatory compliance. It doesn't have to be that way.

As storage vendors debate encryption key management, experts weigh in on steps you can take to protect your data now.

Just days after seven IT vendors proposed an encryption key management standard, Sun is open sourcing its own key management technology.

If you think you've got data storage headaches, wait till you see what the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration is facing.

With users more and more reliant on smartphones, PDAs and other mobile devices, protecting the information on them could become a growth market.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is the latest IT legend to recognize the promise of solid state storage technology.

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.