The more technology advances, the more enterprises discover they find it hard to absorb what the new technology means to their operations. Solution Centers are meant to address this issue. I spoke to Robert Enrique, head of EMC's Global Solution Center operations for Asia Pacific, to discuss the positioning of this new EMC initiative.

EMC is the first storage vendor to integrate flash drives into enterprise arrays. At that time, IBM, HP, HDS, Sun, virtually said there is no real benefit from the faster drives. Par Botes, EMC CTO for Asia Pacific, shares his observations about flash drives one year later.

Ben Worthen of The Wall Street Journal just posted an article that claims Cisco and EMC, two giants of the data center, are planning to set up a new services company. So what?

Antoine Hue, Corporate Director of Storage Practice for Sun Microsystems Asia Pacific discusses the rational behind open source storage and why he believes the financial crisis of 2008-2009 presents an opportunity to enterprises to deploy storage solutions based on open source.

FalconStor rolls out an accelerator for VMware backups; Virtual Instruments unveils I/O optimization software for VMware; VirtenSys shows off I/O virtualization switch.

Nimbus ships unified storage system, Voltaire adds 40 Gbps InfiniBand switch and Unitrends rolls out disk backup appliance.

LeftHand Networks' iSCSI SANs will be delivered as HP appliances only, including a new low-end SAS configuration.

The storage industry continues to face a variety of significant trends in 2009. Symantec expert Eric Hoh provides his perspective on how these trends will affect organizations over the next twelve months.