Deni Connor

IT executives implementing data warehousing and business intelligence applications expect a failure in four of every 10 projects, a recently released study says.

EMC Corp. is expected to bolster its network-attached storage system lineup with an inexpensive, clustered midrange box and rules-based replication software that lets customers automatically distribute files over the network.

Cisco Systems Inc. and IBM Corp. recently agreed to combine the companies Fibre Channel storage-area networking products to sell to customers, a move analysts say is the start of a new era in Fibre Channel.

EMC Corp. is expected to bolster its network-attached storage system lineup next week with an inexpensive clustered midrange box and rules-based replication software that lets customers automatically distribute files over the network.

Start-up Savantis Systems is introducing a switch that lets users pool databases to better utilize capacity and potentially reduce the number of database servers they maintain.

An acquisition by Veritas Software Corp. in November adds to the consolidation in the storage resource management (SRM) market.

It sounds like a good idea: technology that makes it possible to build less expensive, native IP-based storage networks and mixed Fibre Channel-to-IP storage-area networks.

When you think of storage vendors, the first name that comes to mind isn't likely Microsoft Corp. But the software behemoth wants to change that.