Brocade expands into host bus adapters
Brocade on Thursday announced the latest of its storage-area network expansion plans -- the company is getting into the US$1 billion host bus adapter market.
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Cisco, RSA to debut SAN-based data encryption
Cisco and RSA are expected to announce Wednesday that they are working together to deliver encryption products for data at rest on tape, disk and other media.
Incipient debuts Cisco-based data migration feature
Incipient Networks on Wednesday announced it has enhanced its storage virtualization software to support data migration and non-disruptive software upgrades.
NetApp debuts all-file deduplication
Network Appliance on Monday introduced deduplication for all types of file data rather than just backup data.
EMC, MonoSphere support replication management
EMC and capacity-planning vendor MonoSphere on Monday announced enhancements to products to support virtualized environments and long-distance replication.
Big Blue announces "Big Green" initiative
IBM on Thursday unveiled a US$1 billion-a-year service initiative aimed at building and redesigning data centers that consume less energy.
Virtualization drives storage management advances
The convergence of server and storage management is slowly taking place as enterprises look for more automated ways of managing their data center assets. Spurring the trend toward convergence -- which remains somewhat hampered by a lack of available tools -- is virtualization technology.
EMC unveils high availability enhancement
EMC Wednesday is expected to announce enhancements to its availability, performance and path management software that will help customers maintain uptime while migrating data or virtualizing their storage environments.
Onaro rolls out application-aware storage management
Onaro on Monday unveiled storage software that lets IT departments link their storage resources with application requirements.
IBM opens System p servers to Linux applications
IBM has announced an open beta version of virtualization software that lets x86 Linux applications run on Power processor-based IBM System p servers.
Brocade ships SAN access gateway
Brocade has announced availability of storage-area network gateway software that lets IT managers connect HP BladeSystem servers to SANs.
Vendors propose data integrity standard
Four vendors on Wednesday rolled out a new technology initiative designed to provide end-to-end data integrity and avoid corruption of databases running on enterprise storage systems.
Storage startup purchases Brocade technology
A new storage company, IntelliPath, has evolved out of the detritus of products from Brocade's US$973 million buyout of rival storage switch maker McData.
Vendors hail Fibre Channel over Ethernet spec
A group of storage vendors on Thursday proposed the development of a new specification that would allow the Fibre Channel storage-area networking protocol to run over Ethernet.
Gresham expands capabilities of virtual tape library
Gresham Enterprise Storage on Tuesday announced a new version of its virtual tape library software that allows users to back up data to disk and then migrate it to tape.