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Intel is ramping up its effort to expand Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). The company today announced that its Open FCoE technology is being supported by a variety of vendors, including Cisco, EMC, NetApp, Red Hat and Oracle. “Our approach is a bit different than other approaches. We’re running all the Fibre Channel protocols on […]

The open source Lustre technology is a parallel file system that is often found in high performance computing (HPC) environments. Users of the file system will soon get community Lustre distribution, thanks to the leadership of startup Whamcloud. Whamcloud is a venture backed startup that includes veterans from Oracle and Sun, where the Lustre project […]

While Sun Microsystems may have struggled with making money from its OpenSolaris operating system prior to Sun’s acquisition by Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), that doesn’t mean that others haven’t had better success. Storage startup Nexenta Systems is now celebrating its second year in business and its CEO is claiming a positive revenue trend for its system […]

Despite takeover rumors and new competitive threats, Brocade managed to end its fiscal year in solid shape. Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) finished its fiscal year on a strong note despite a global recession, new competitive challenges and rumors that it was up for sale (see Could Brocade and NetApp Get Acquired? and Analysts Expect Strong Earnings […]

Anyone wondering whether Ethernet might be the data storage fabric of the future should look no further than Brocade’s (NASDAQ: BRCD) plans to offer 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) next year (see Falling 10GbE Prices Spell Doom for Fibre Channel). Brocade has not yet officially announced its 100 GbE module availability, but Nadeem Zahid, senior product […]

Open source data storage vendor Cleversafe says it has developed new technology that can make content available at massive scale over the cloud. Cleversafe says its distributed delivery solution decreases storage requirements while improving availability. With its new smart client feature, the company says its technology gets even faster and more efficient, and it can […]

At the heart of every operating system is the file system that provides read/write access to data. Since 2001, Ext3 has been the mainstay of Linux file systems, but a better file system may be in the works (see Linux File Systems: You Get What You Pay For and Linux File Systems: Ready for the […]

Blue Coat is acquiring competitor Packeteer for $268 million in a deal that unites two players in the fast-growing market for WAN optimization and acceleration, which Infonetics predicts will be worth $1.2 billion by 2010. The combined Packeteer Blue Coat offering will provide additional acceleration capabilities to Blue Coat’s product portfolio. “The reason behind this […]

Open source storage startup Cleversafe is moving into the second stage of its evolution, with new hardware appliances built on top of its core open source dispersed storage network technology (see Open Source Storage System Takes On RAID and Open Source Storage: Disruptive Technology or Distant Dream?). The new products provide access, storage and management […]

On the heels of Brocade’s new data center switching platform, Cisco has unveiled its own effort to unite Ethernet and storage traffic. The Nexus 7000 will replace Cisco’s 20 year-old Catalyst switching platform, offering massive scalability, a new operating system, a new management interface and the first inclusion of Cisco’s Trusted Security (TrustSec) architecture. At […]

It’s one thing to have a lot of data to mine in a data warehouse. It’s quite another to actually understand how it’s being used. That’s where IBM’s new DB2 Warehouse Performance Management Suite comes in. The new release works with IBM’s recently released DB2 Warehouse 9.5 and is designed to provide enhanced tools for […]