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Readying Ethernet for the converged data center

Ethernet has emerged as the dominant network protocol but it has to overcome several key limitations if it is to become the foundation of choice for the converged data center.

By Mark Teter, chief technology officer, Advanced Systems Group | 17 February, 2012 08:27

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EMC adds virtual machine management to Clariion arrays

EMC Corp. today introduced new virtualization-aware capabilities for its Clariion CX4 midrange networked storage systems, which make CX4 software and disaster recovery applications aware of connected virtual machines.

By Lucas Mearian | 26 August, 2009 05:27

Tags: EMC, san, storage, storage virtualisation, virtualisation

IBM unveils faster midrange storage array

IBM today announced that its latest midrange storage array, the IBM System Storage DS5020 Express, will be available on Sept. 4.

By Lucas Mearian | 26 August, 2009 05:10

Tags: Fibre Channel, IBM, san, storage

Open source Xen a 1-Stop for transport IT company

Sydney-based transport industry data interchange and portal provider 1-Stop Connections has migrated most of its core infrastructure to virtual servers and iSCSI SANs to reduce its infrastructure requirements and management complexity.

By Rodney Gedda | 06 August, 2009 14:24

Tags: dell, equallogic, iscsi, storage, Transport, virtualisation, xen

NetApp agrees to pay $1.5B for Data Domain

NetApp Inc. today said it has agreed to acquire top data de-duplication vendor Data Domain Inc. in a cash and stock deal valued at $1.5 billion.

By Lucas Mearian | 21 May, 2009 07:54

Tags: data domain, netapp

IDC: Storage revenues drop, but capacity shipped grows

IDC's quarterly data storage sales report shows that quarterly revenue for worldwide storage systems was down 5.9% in the last quarter of 2008 compared to a year earlier. But the capacity shipped increased by 27.3% year-over-year to a total of 2.46 petabytes.

By Lucas Mearian | 09 March, 2009 09:00

Tags: Fibre Channel, storage market

Fans and skeptics argue on Fibre Channel over Ethernet

This year's Storage Networking World Europe show focused attention on Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). However, while SAN vendors promoted FCoE as a way to extend Fibre Channel's reach and longevity, skeptics described it as unnecessary -- and perhaps even a Cisco-powered Trojan horse intended to wipe out rival networking supplier Brocade Communications.

By Bryan Betts | 03 November, 2008 12:41

Tags: Fibre Channel over Ethernet

Foundry could postpone Brocade vote yet again

Foundry Networks says a shareholder vote on its amended deal to be acquired by Brocade could be further delayed.

By Jim Duffy | 03 November, 2008 08:26

Tags: brocade, foundry

Foundry postpones vote on Brocade deal, stock plunges

Foundry Networks stock closed down over 25 percent Friday after the company said it is postponing a shareholder vote on its merger with Brocade.

By Jim Duffy | 27 October, 2008 08:29

Tags: brocade, foundry

EMC, NetApp roll out Fibre Channel over Ethernet products

EMC and NetApp pushed new Fibre Channel over Ethernet products at Storage Networking World in the US last week, but the technology may not gain mainstream adoption for more than a year.

By Jon Brodkin | 20 October, 2008 09:01

Tags: EMC, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, netapp

EMC blesses Emulex FCoE adapters

EMC said Monday it will support a line of Emulex network adapters that use Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCOE), giving a big-name boost to an emerging technology that could become the common transport across an entire data center.

By Stephen Lawson | 15 October, 2008 10:17

Tags: EMC, fcoe

Could 'fat-tree' switch setup trim data center costs?

Buying faster switches might not be the only way to amp up performance across data center networks, according to researchers at the University of California, San Diego, who this week proposed a network architecture that would enable commodity Ethernet switches to deliver better performance at a lower cost than their 10 Gigabit Ethernet counterparts.

By Denise Dubie | 25 August, 2008 14:13

Tags: gigabit ethernet, routers, switches

Network Instruments data recorder holds 288T bytes

Network Instruments has developed what it claims is the largest network data recorder available. The GigaStor SAS has a capacity of up to 288 terabytes, and was originally developed for a U.S. military customer which needed to store a month's worth of the traffic on its network, said Douglas Smith, the company's president and co-founder.

By Bryan Betts | 20 August, 2008 05:11

Tags: Fibre Channel, SATA

iSCSI, flash storage highlight overhaul of EMC's mid-range Clariion system

EMC Tuesday will ship a new generation of its Clariion midrange storage-area network disk array, which makes support for iSCSI a standard feature, offers new energy-saving software tools and gives customers the option to use flash memory.

Brocade deal to help drive data-center transition

Brocade Communications Systems' planned US$3 billion acquisition of Foundry Networks is a major strategic move in a brewing war over the future of data-center connectivity, industry analysts said Tuesday.

Brocade's Foundry buy will boost Fibre Channel over Ethernet

Brocade's pending acquisition of Foundry Networks and its IP network technology will give Brocade a shot in the arm in the area of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), a technology expected to make major data center inroads in the next few years.

Watch out Cisco: Here comes Brocade/Foundry

Brocade's proposed US$3 billion acquisition of Foundry Networks this week would create a stronger data center competitor to Cisco while raising the stakes even higher for other Ethernet switch companies.

Brocade to buy Foundry for US$3 billion

Storage networking company Brocade Communications Systems has agreed to acquire enterprise LAN vendor Foundry Networks for approximately US$3 billion, the companies announced Monday.

Ultrafast storage fuels movie's battle scenes

Hired by Marvel Entertainment to help bring a 9-foot-tall gamma-powered superhero to life on the big screen, officials at the Soho VFX special effects facility needed massive storage availability to help its artists create digitally-rendered fight scenes for the film, The Incredible Hulk, which opens Friday in US theaters.

EMC predicts lower flash storage prices within a few years

EMC executives predict flash storage technology will be nearly as inexpensive as high-end disk drives within two years. Most disk drives will continue to offer lower prices than flash, though, ensuring a long life for disk technology, it said.