Cisco pushes into servers; storage’s role undefined
Profile: Dave Raffo
Cisco execs led by CEO John Chambers spent 90 minutes today on a webcast telling groups spread around the world what most of the IT world already knew – it is getting into the server business. But...
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Dell/EqualLogic prepares SSD IP SAN
Profile: Beth Pariseau
Dell is about to add solid state drive (SSD) support to its EqualLogic iSCSI SANs in a new PS6000 model. As first reported on ChannelWeb last Friday, the PS6000 will also have four Ethernet ports, one more than EqualLogic PS5000 arrays have....
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STEC set to ride enterprise SSD wave
Profile: Dave Raffo
While most storage vendors have tempered expectations for early 2009, STEC is predicting a healthy expansion of its solid state drive (SSD) business for enterprise storage arrays.
STEC Thursday predicted its ZeusIOPS product for enterprise storage will command more revenue for the...
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Storage Headlines for 03-12-2009
Profile: Beth Pariseau
You know the drill--some stories you may have missed this week: [display_podcast] Stories referenced:
Sanrad to add QoS to storage virtualization products
Profile: Beth Pariseau
Sanrad, maker of the iSCSI storage virtualization gateway V-Switch and virtual server HA storage subsystem V-Stor, is adding a new quality of service feature to both its products. Sanrad VP of product management Allon Cohen, "Storage-intensive I/O can be a barrier to virtualization of some...
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Riverbed contemplates SSDs, dedupe
Profile: Beth Pariseau
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Analysts: demand more from your storage vendor in virtual environments
Profile: Beth Pariseau
A recent report by Andrew Reichman at Forrester Research showed that among 124 surveyed IT decision-makers, incumbent vendors and Fibre Channel still dominate the in-use storage systems supporting VMware deployments. But, according to Reichman and another analyst specializing in VMware, the Burton...
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Consumers feel enterprise-grade storage pain
Profile: Beth Pariseau
According to a notice posted on Facebook's official blog, a group of disk drives (a RAID group?) on what sounds like a clustered storage systems failed en masse over the weekend, causing 10 to 15% of user-uploaded photos to...
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Storage Headlines for 03-05-2009
Profile: Beth Pariseau
Here are some stories you may have missed this week: [display_podcast] Stories referenced:
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IDC: storage sales down, especially Fibre Channel
Profile: Dave Raffo
IDC’s storage tracker numbers released today shows an 0.5% year-over-year decline in worldwide external storage sales in the fourth quarter of 2008.
This was the first time external disk sales declined in more than five years, yet it's hardly a surprise. Everybody knows spending...
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