Broadcom quits knocking on Emulex’s door *UPDATED*
It turns out Broadcom can take a hint after all. After Emulex repeatedly spurned its acquisition offers, Broadcom today threw in the towel and said it will walk away. However, the Ethernet-chip maker...
View ArticleMore storage industry perspectives on FCoE
Yesterday, we posted a story about Dell’Oro Group’s prediction that Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) sales growth would outpace that of FC by 2011. That report got us lots of great feedback during...
View ArticleLSI joins 8 Gbps FC party with new disk array
There’s a lot of 8 Gbps Fibre Channel going around these days. LSI Corp. joined EMC Corp. today in announcing new support for the next leap in Fibre Channel throughput with the Engenio 4900 system it...
View ArticleVirtual Instruments offers SOS-4-SAN service
Virtual Instruments, a spinoff from optic communication and test and measurement equipment maker Finisar, is packaging its VirtualWisdom and NetWisdom tools into an “emergency SAN troubleshooting...
View ArticleHP refreshes and renames MSA, LeftHand platfroms
This should be a busy year for Hewlett-Packard storage, with upgrades expected to each of its major SAN array platforms. HP started that process today by launching two new systems at the low-end of its...
View ArticleVirtual Instruments looks to make TAPping SANs easier
Virtual Instruments, a spinoff of network monitoring company Finisar, rolled out a new hardware configuration for its Traffic Access Port (TAP) devices, which watch bi-directional Fibre Channel traffic...
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