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Taneja Group: Next-Gen Fibre Channel Storage Systems Market Forecast

The Fibre Channel storage market is undergoing significant architectural and technological transition as end user purchasing criteria shift to emphasize price-performance, energy efficiency, capacity optimization, and simplified storage management. A new class of system designs has emerged that offer a simpler, more efficient, high-performance alternative to traditional monolithic and dual-controller...

Tags: Fibre Channel Storage System, Fibre Channel, Taneja Group, 3PARData Inc., Fibre Channel Storage Market, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Ip storage, Hardware

White papers 2007-10-31

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Emulex to Broadcom's merger overture: No thanks

Emulex on Monday said its board has rejected Broadcom's unsolicited takeover offer at $9.25 a share.  In a statement, Paul Folino, chairman of Emulex's board, said the Broadcom offer was an "opportunistic attempt" to get the company on the cheap. Emulex argued that Broadcom knew that the...

Tags: Merger, Broadcom Corp., Emulex Corp., Proposal, Company, Corporate Governance, Data Centers, Manufacturing, Storage, Leadership, Investment, Networking, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-04

HP answers Cisco with Matrix; Data center visions galore

Hewlett-Packard on Monday unveiled its answer to making data centers more modular and more cost effective and the target is pretty clear: Cisco Systems. HP's latest entry into the data center wars is dubbed the BladeSystem Matrix and Matrix Orchestration Environment. These products reside in HP's Adaptive...

Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Vision, Server, Cisco Systems Inc., BladeSystem Matrix, Storage Lineup, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-20

EMC rolls out new high-end storage lineup; Aims to push data center flash adoption

EMC on Tuesday will unveil a new high-end storage lineup and a new architecture that's designed to be a bridge between legacy data centers and the newfangled virtual ones. EMC, along with Cisco Systems, IBM, HP and a bevy of others, has been busy pushing the next...

Tags: EMC Symmetrix, Data Center, EMC Corp., Storage, Data Centers, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-14

Do IT pros demand Apple's new Xserve?

I posted this morning that Apple has debuted its new Xserve with Intel Nehalem processors, but I didn't give the full rundown of the product. So here's the who, what, why and how. Apple today announced an updated Xserve that it says "delivers...

Tags: Apple Xserve, Information Technology, Apple Inc., PC Magazine, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Virtualization and Emulex

Although I wouldn't have thought of Emulex and virtualization technology at the same time, a conversation with the company changed my viewpoint.  How did Emulex achieve the improbable? Read on. Here's what Emulex says about itself Emulex makes a wide range of enterprise-class products...

Tags: Emulex Corp., Storage, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-12-01

VMware vs Microsoft: Place your bets

At this year's VMworld conference, the talk was all about the free release of Microsoft's hypervisor product, and how much of a threat the software giant may pose to virtualization leader VMware The talk of this year's VMworld conference in Las Vegas was how much of a competitive threat...

Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hardware, Hyper-V, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Storage, Data Management, Brett Winterford ZDNet Australia, VMware, Microsoft, virtualization, hypervisor

News items 2008-09-22

High-end disks dead in 2 years

Dave Donatelli, a senior exec at EMC - the largest data storage vendor - predicted that high-end flash drives will replace high-end hard drives in 2 years. Is this the beginning of the end for disk drives? What is a high-end hard drive? Unlike the...

Tags: Notebook, Disk, USB Flash Drive, Chip, PC Board, Notebook Disk, Serial ATA, Storage, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Waiting for Leopard's iSCSI support

Scanning though Apple's server discussion boards recently, I noticed a thread on iSCSI. This technology was a hot topic last year at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco and we can expect more of the same next month. iSCSI is a standard that uses the familiar SCSI...

Tags: iSCSI, Apple Inc., Technology, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Network Technology, Storage, Hardware, Networking, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2007-12-10

Dot Hill: A lesser known green storage option

Because of our insatiable human tendency to create more and more information like this very own blog, storage is one of the things I scrutinize most when people pitch me on all manner of green technology. Most of the products I hear about, mind you, aren’t...

Tags: Green Technology, Battery, Product, Dot Hill 2330, Dot Hill, Storage, Hardware, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-10-24

HP launches 'Shorty' blade for the mid-market

HP is targeting what is calls the “global 500,000� mid-sized (100-999 employees) companies with a series of new services and products, led by ‘Shorty,’ a compact blade system that the company said reduces the cost and expertise required to deploy applications.The new HP BladeSystem c3000 rack-based version is 10.5-inches-high and...

Tags: Blade servers, Utility computing, Servers, Storage, Dan Farber, C3000, Hewlett-Packard Co., blade

Blog posts 2007-09-12

Cisco MDS 9000 Intelligent Fabric Applications

Since the inception of the Cisco MDS 9000 family of Storage Area Network SAN switching products, Cisco has been at the forefront of intelligent fabric applications innovation and has successfully transformed its vision of embedded SAN integrated fabric services into a reality. In particular, Cisco has delivered innovative, market-leading SAN...

Tags: SAN, Cisco Systems Inc., Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Hardware

White papers 2007-07-01

Virtual server SAN connectivity: Why blade server virtualistaion and Fibre Channel SAN connectivity are rapidly becoming adopted

Server virtualisation is rapidly gaining market acceptance for server provisioning. The introduction of virtual HBA technology will allow users to combine and leverage virtual servers and storage networks into flexible, secure and reliable solutions. The early generations of blades offered little synergy with virtualisation, but the convergence of blades and...

Tags: Microsoft Virtual Server, Blade Server, Fibre Channel, Blade, Emulex Corp., SAN, Fibre Channel SAN, Blade Servers, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Server Virtualization, Servers, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2007-06-05

A SAN for the rest of us

Fibre Channel to costly? iSCSI too slow?In a past life I was the product manager for the industry's first full Fibre Channel array. We had great hopes for FC as a storage-optimized network that would bring the power of network economics to drive down storage costs. My bad.Hijacked by vendors,...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-04-12

Xserve Xeon, Thumper, and Apple's Market position

Xserve Xeon, Thumper, and Apple's Market positionyes they had choicesFreescale, PA Semi ... and the outlier: SPARCWow ...Talk about smoke and mirrors ...But still, did Apple really have a choice, but to move to Intel? If not, then why complain about it?Careful Murph, you don't want to go against the...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Servers, Operating systems, Using AMD, Apple Inc., Apple Xserve

Discussion threads 2006-11-06

Xserve Xeon, Thumper, and Apple's Market position

When Apple's Xserve first came out it stood head and shoulders over the competition on every measure applicable in its markets - markets that were defined by the entertainment, education, and pre-press industries and therefore rewarded extensive optimization for image and streams processing. Thus Apple's Xserve was the first machine...

Tags: General, Apple

Blog posts 2006-11-06

SAS and the Market Overview

Serial Attached SCSI SAS, the successor technology to the parallel SCSI interface, leverages proven SCSI functionality and features while expanding SCSI's proven performance, scalability and reliability for enterprise storage. SAS offers many features not found in today's mainstream storage solutions such as drive addressability up to 16,000 devices per port,...

Tags: Storage, SCSI, SAS Institute, Serial Attached SCSI, Xtore Extreme Storage

White papers 2006-11-06

NetApp enters SMB market

Network Appliance offers a new storage product line to small-medium business customers, a fast-growth market increasingly crowded with rivals. Network Appliance plans to announce Monday it has entered the small-medium business market with a storage product intended to expand its footprint in an area increasingly crowded with rivals. ...

Tags: NetApp Inc., Small And Medium Business, StoreVault S500, Smb/Sme, Storage, Hardware, Dawn Kawamoto

News items 2006-06-26

Utilizing HP NAS Technology for Microsoft Exchange 2003 Consolidation White Paper

With the development of recent storage over TCP/IP technologies, the SMB market now has choices of functionality that have only been previously available to customers that implement Fibre Channel technologies. This paper outlines two of these new technologies - NAS and iSCSI - applied to Microsoft Exchange 2003 operations. Testing...

Tags: NAS, Hewlett-Packard Co., Consolidation, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), E-mail Servers, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Groupware, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-05-01

IBM: The computer isn't the network. It's the blade chassis.

IBM: The computer isn't the network. It's the blade chassis.*only* 4 GB??"It just wasn't until this year that the first 4GB Fibre Channel switches — a.k.a. 4GFC-compliant switches — were tested for interoperability and started to come to market."Wait - my [b]PC[/b] has two gigabit ethernet connectors on the...

Tags: Blade servers, Utility computing, Servers, computer, network, blade, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-11-21