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Brocade acquires Ethernet equipment maker Foundry Networks for $3 billion
The acquisition of Foundry matches Brocade's product lines to Cisco's, but observers are concerned about the $3 billion price tag, which dwarfs the $713 million buyout of McData. Article | 22 Jul 2008
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Bullish Cisco predicts Fibre Channel over Ethernet storage arrays in 2009
Despite Brocade's claims that Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is still years away from reality, Cisco says it has customers close to adoption on the server side with FCoE storage arrays coming next year. Article | 07 Jul 2008
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Copan CEO: Putting spindown on disk arrays isn't MAID
Mark Ward, CEO of Copan, isn't worried about EMC or HDS offering technology similar to Copan's MAID because, he says, layering spindown onto traditional disk arrays is like putting lipstick on a pig. Article | 13 Jun 2008
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Storage Decisions: Application-centric storage becoming a reality
Application-centric storage is close to becoming a reality, according to storage administrators at the Storage Decisions conference in Toronto. But the only way to get there is through a natural storage replacement cycle, rather than rip-and-replace.... Article | 06 Jun 2008
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Storage Decisions Chicago 2008 Session Downloads
Download all the sessions that were presented to storage professionals at the recent Storage Decisions 2008 conference in Chicago on topics including DR, SANs, backup, storage virtualization, storage management and green storage. Article | 02 Jun 2008
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Verari, Xsigo form I/O virtual connection
Verari integrates Xsigo's I/O virtualization into its blade servers in an effort to reduce connections and increase manageability of I/O between blades and storage. Article | 27 May 2008
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Storage Decisions: Brocade launches 8 Gbit switches, HBAs
With its launch at Storage Decisions of 8 Gbit switches and 8 Gbit HBAs, Brocade claims to provide end-to-end 8 Gbit connectivity, although storage array controllers don't support 8 Gbit yet and Fibre Channel hard drives will probably never go beyond... Article | 13 May 2008
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Verari rolls out high-density networked storage blade
Verari's new storage blades hold up to 12 TB per 1U vertical enclosure, connect via iSCSI, NFS or CIFS, and allow VMotion for blade servers in high-capacity environments. Article | 07 Apr 2008
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BlueArc sticks to its guns in data center storage
BlueArc's CEO talks about a long IPO process, and why you don't need a grid or cluster to manage Web 2.0 storage. Article | 27 Feb 2008
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Turner Broadcasting turns to newcomer Omneon for grid storage
When IBM, EMC and HP deliver clustered storage systems due out later this year, they'll find that many multimedia companies have already deployed a grid storage system from newcomer Omneon. Article | 31 Jan 2008