On August 16, Dell announced its intention to acquire 3PAR Data, better recognized as one of the early pioneers of virtualized storage. A week HP made a counter offer that ups the bidding war for one of the few remaining storage pureplay startups in the once crowded enterprise storage marketplace. What we have is mayhem ensuing.
While end-to-end FCoE is doable, there are still a lot of reasons why its not yet ready though prospects are getting better towards the end of the year.
QLogic Fibre Channel stackable switches are providing the backbone for the International Broadcast Center's storage area network at the 2010 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Fusion-io closes $45 million in investor funding; Nasuni announces availability of Nasuni Filer; Overland Storage adds LTO-5 to NEO S SMB tape systems; Hitachi Data Systems sells QLogic 8100 series CNAs.
The QLogic 8100 Series is fully qualified and interoperable with the comprehensive Hitachi portfolio of storage systems.
SunGard launches enterprise cloud computing platform; Maxell unveils 3 TB LTO Ultrium 5 data cartridge; PHD improves esXpress virtual machine.
NetApp unveils new design guides for building cloud storage offerings; HP and IBM now sell Emulex FCoE adapters; QLogic's 8100 Series CNAs gets certified by Cisco.
In its second collaboration with IBM this year to bring converged networking solutions to mainstream data centers,QLogic Corp. announced that the IBM Power Systems portfolio now includes QLogic's award-winning single chip 8100 Series.
3PAR, Exanet combine for block and file storage; Hitachi Data Systems upgrades SAN monitoring tool; Tandberg sells DAT drives
The storage industry does very little innovation these days. What it boasts of is a lot of "me toos". FCoE is the new baby that everyone is cuddling to and trying to make their own statement.


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