Enterprise Storage
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Is flash a bright spot in recession?
News Fall in consumer demand is affecting its growth, but surge in smartphones and solid-state drives bodes well for flash from 2011 in Asia, say observers.
Tags: Memory, Smart Phone, Asia, Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Storage, Sun Microsystems Inc., enterprise storage, recession, flash memory
HP touts virtual savings, flexibility
News Hewlett-Packard's Virtual Connect Flex-10 aims to save users up to 55 percent of virtual network equipment costs and better allocate Ethernet bandwidth.
Tags: Virtualization, LANs and WANs, Hewlett-Packard Co., Asia, Storage, Network Interface Card, Server, power consumption, enterprise storage, network
HP throws Cisco ProCurve ball
News HP is banking on its server experience to push "integrated" ProCurve networking line over Cisco's "unified computing" tag, says executive.
Tags: Routing/switching, Blade servers, Hardware, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP ProCurve, Cisco Systems Inc., Singapore, Small And Medium Business, Server, blade server
Infortrend moves into enterprise storage
News The company is hoping that its five new SAN systems for scale-out storage will pull in medium-sized business customers.
Tags: Storage management, Data Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Enterprise Storage, SAN, storage virtualization, IBM Corp., Data Management, Storage management, Infortrend
Hitachi, Intel sign pact to develop enterprise SSDs
News The partners will work together on delivering solid-state drives for servers, workstations and storage systems.
Tags: Processors, Memory, Servers, Hitachi Ltd., Intel Corp., Manufacturing, Storage, Serial Attached SCSI, performance, I/O
EMC launches higher-capacity enterprise flash
News The company believes demand for higher-capacity flash drives is growing, and has rolled out 200GB and 400GB versions for its three main storage lines.
Tags: Data centers, EMC Corp., Storage, Gartner Inc., Pillar Data Systems, finance industry, EMC Celerra, PCI, disk storage, enterprise storage
Downturn to dull flash, Ethernet storage
News Cost-conscious storage environment will see firms pass over solid-state drives and delay switch to Fiber Channel over Ethernet, says HDS CTO.
Tags: Storage area networks (SAN), Storage management, Storage software, Virtualization, IT budgeting, Infrastructure/architecture management, Industry Veteran, Fiber, Storage, enterprise storage environment
Toshiba buys Fujitsu HDD business
News Japanese manufacturer buys Fujitsu's hard disk drive business to boost its market share and pave way into enterprise server and data storage markets.
Tags: Storage, Storage software, Servers, Electronics, Manufacturing, Storage, Sales, Fujitsu Laboratories, hard drive, Fujitsu Ltd.
New HP Thai chief optimistic after EDS acquisition
News Despite the economic downturn, Hewlett-Packard Thailand plans to aggressively penetrate the software and outsourcing services markets, and is optimistic about business growth in 2009.
Tags: Business applications, Services, Service level management, Storage, Servers, Hewlett-Packard Co., Outsourcing, Thailand, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Storage
Green adds bucks to corporate savings
News Cost-reduction initiatives tagged with green IT benefits provide more reasons for businesses to implement such tools, says analyst.
Tags: Green IT, Budgeting/cost control, Cost control, Hewlett-Packard Co., Green IT, Outsourcing, University of Michigan, Server, e-mail, Hardware
HDS appoints HK, Macau head
News Enterprise storage provider Hitachi Data Systems has appointed Freeman Nung as general manager for Hong Kong and Macau.
Asia to warm up to Cisco's data center plan?
News news analysis Cisco Systems' Unified Computing has impact on enterprise server market, but it will take time for networking giant to convince users, observers say.
Tags: Data centers, Servers, Virtualization, Infrastructure/architecture management, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., International Data Corp., Asia-Pacific, Storage
IBM looks at faster, cheaper data mirroring
News Aiming to snag a bigger chunk of the disaster recovery market, IBM plans to announce an upgrade to its high-end data storage system designed to allow for less costly long-distance data replication.
Sony, CA team on storage
News Computer Associates (CA) and Sony have announced that they will bundle their products to provide storage packages for mid-sized and large corporations.
Flash set to fire up enterprise storage
Techguide Flash will become integral to enterprise storage in three to five years' time, as prices drop to about twice that of magnetic disk drives, says NetApp executive.
Tags: Storage software, Storage, Memory
