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Hewlett-Packard disclosed today that it has begun selling stackable QLogic Corp.-developed 8Gbit/sec Fibre Channel switches that are targeted for use at remote offices and corporate departments. The QLogic switches have 20 8Gbit/sec Fibre Channel ports and can be stacked in groups of up to six to create a high-end offering with 120 8Gbit/sec Fibre Channel [...]

EMC will add a data protection mechanism to the next version of its Atmos internal cloud storage platform, along with using more powerful and efficient chips and more dense disk drives in its Atmos infrastructure. Atmos is a hardware and software system, used mostly by service providers, for storing unstructured data across many locations. AT&T [...]

IBM announced an enterprise-class network attached storage (NAS) array today that is capable of scaling to 14 petabytes under a single name space. The array, called SONAS (Scale Out Network Attached Storage), is targeted at mid- and large-size enterprises. The rack-sized array is built in part on hardware and software developed for IBM’s supercomputing systems. [...]

Looking to extend its reach in the storage space, Dell said it has put a bid in to purchase clustered storage vendor Exanet for an as-yet undisclosed amount. According to a Dell spokesman, the company has submitted an offer to purchase Israel-based Exanet’s assets, primarily patents, and other intellectual property with court approval through a [...]

When IM Flash Technologies (IMFT) announced this week that its manufacturing a 25-nanometer NAND flash chip, the company also admitted that shrinking the technology much further may not be possible because of problems with bit errors and cost. If that turns out to be true, one of the basic building blocks used for storage in [...]

Scalability has been the buzzword for data warehousing vendors over the past several years, with the standout questions being, how many petabytes of data can I store? And how many servers and nodes? In 2010, however, the watchword will be speed, as vendors start introducing flash memory storage to get around the longtime bottleneck of [...]

An open-source MDM (master data management) suite from Talend is now available, giving companies a lower-priced option to proprietary products from the likes of Tibco, Kalido, and IBM, the company announced Monday. Master data is information used across multiple applications, such as lists of products and customers. MDM tools work to make master data consistent [...]

Netezza on Monday launched the follow-up to its TwinFin data warehousing appliance, a smaller device that shares the surfing-themed name of its big brother. Called the Skimmer, the new device is aimed at small to medium-size businesses or enterprise departments and can store up to 10TB of data, said vice president of marketing Phil Francisco. [...]

EMC announced today a new higher-density configuration of its Clariion CX4 midrange storage array and Celerra NAS (network-attached storage) gateway device, offering twice the capacity of previous systems in half the floor space. The mid-range storage systems, which now can house twice the number of hard disk drives in half the frame space, will also [...]

Cisco Systems Thursday announced a new network line card based on a services-oriented architecture (SOA) that offers four different functions for storage area networks (SANs) that can be licensed separately and deployed regardless of the back-end storage hardware. Cisco’s Storage Services Node-16 (SSN-16) line card contains four controller chips, each delivering a different function to [...]