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It’s a $3 billion gamble, but most observers see Brocade’s announced purchase of Foundry Networks as a good move to shore up its stance against Cisco for the hearts and minds of the data center.
The buyout essentially expands Brocade’s profile from a provider of primarily Fibre Channel SAN products to a full data center networking […]

Solaris 10 users will be pleased to know that they now have access to Emulex’ Virtual HBA technology using the StorageTek version of the 4 Gb LightPulse device.
Known in Sun circles as the StorageTek Enterprise Class 4 Gbps PCI Express HBA, the LightPulse adapter with the Virtual HBA system brings increased functionality to Solaris Containers […]

I came across this interesting blog on ZDNet by enterprise consultant Oliver Marks describing General Electric’s internal collaboration network.
The company’s “SupportCentral” network is probably the most advanced internal enterprise cloud in the world today, with more than 400,000 users worldwide generating 25 million hits per day. That’s more than Yahoo and Google combined, and the […]

Fibre Channel over Ethernet is coming to an enterprise near you this fall, but the questions remains: is it the customers that need it, or vendors that want it?
Expect to see a heavy push for FCoE from Cisco, Emulex and other supporters in the last quarter and heading into 2009. The final standard has not […]

Clustered storage vendor ONStor has released a powerful new solution that is not only capable of scaling into the multi-petabyte range but packs a healthy I/O infrastructure to get all that data in and out quickly.
The Cougar 6000 NAS gateway can scale up to 4 petabytes in a single cluster consisting of eight nodes and […]