Deni Connor

Cisco Systems Inc. Tuesday officially announced its entry into Fibre Channel storage with the introduction of a family of fabric switches for enterprise data centers

Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday will announce new storage management software that is Common Information Model (CIM)-enabled and thus ultimately manageable by any other software that uses CIM.

IBM Corp. last week announced a new server for small- and mid-sized businesses that contains fault-tolerance and self-managing capabilities not seen before in systems of this size.

Startup SANgate Systems Inc. has announced the first of its data migration products, which migrate open systems and mainframe storage data from one vendor

Storage software vendor FalconStor Software Inc. last week moved to improve the fault tolerance of its products by acquiring software maker IP Metrics Software Inc. and revealing plans to add server failover capability to its own IPStor product.

Storage software vendor FalconStor Software Inc. last week moved to improve the fault tolerance of its products by acquiring software maker IP Metrics Software Inc. and revealing plans to add server failover capability to its own IPStor product.

Storage competitors EMC Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. Wednesday are expected to announce that they will exchange technologies to let their products interoperate and manage each other.

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.