February, 2009

Storage Headlines for 02-26-2009

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Online services bite the dust

Two online data sharing services failed this week -- one from a computing giant, and the other a small social bookmarking website. That's the trouble in this wild and wooly world of the cloud--especially in its early days. Not every service is going to make it, and then you're going to have to...

EMC, NetApp clash over VMware

There are lots of interesting donnybrooks going on in this industry at any one moment, but EMC-NetApp is like the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry: imbued with a sense of historical inevitability, and capable of reaching heretofore undiscovered levels of bickering. The latest series of skirmishes takes...

Latest Sun/NetApp clash: SPEC SFS

While one vendor's blogger came to bury SPEC SFS, another came to defend it. The clash of vendors as yet seems unresolved.

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) SFS benchmark measures file server throughput and response time. The latest version,

EMC releases Networker Fast Start virtual appliance

A post by EMC's Storagezilla over the weekend spread the news that EMC's scaled-down version of its Networker backup product,

Storage Headlines for 02-19-2009

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Seagate, STEC call off SSD battle

Scuffling drive vendors Seagate and STEC have called a truce in their solid state drive (SSD) patent infringement battle, with both vendors saying today they have dropped their lawsuits against the other. Seagate filed the

Emulex focuses on ‘Convergenomics’

Emulex today disclosed its next round of convergence products – universal converged network adapters (UCNAs) and a management framework -- as well as encryption for its Fibre Channel HBAs.

If you were just getting familiar with converged network adapters (CNAs), you might be thrown by...

iSCSI SAN software: riding the winds of change?

Last week, Hewlett-Packard launched its first iSCSI SAN product based on its acquisition last year of LeftHand Networks. As part of that announcement, HP made it official that LeftHand's days as a...

VMware reports glitch with SRM and NetApp systems

According to a note posted on VMware's KnowledgeBase website, the server virtualization software maker is recommending that users of NetApp's FAS arrays in a High Availability...