Network World on Storage http://www.nwfusion.com/topics/storage.html The latest storage news, analysis and in-depth features from NetworkWorld.com. Network World, Inc. Copyright(C) 1994 - 2009 Network World, Inc. Weighing the pros/cons of desktop virtualization http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/061809-desktop-virtualization.html Companies that have deployed virtual servers don't need to start from scratch for their desktop virtualization deployments, but there are a lot of new challenges to tackle. Denise Dubie 2009-06-18T12:00:00-04:00 VMware’s vSphere brings storage flexibility, greater speed to SaaS provider http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/061609-tradebeam-vsphere.html When VMware launched its latest virtualization platform, vSphere, it introduced the phrase “cloud operating system” to the IT industry. Jon Brodkin 2009-06-16T12:00:00-04:00 Cisco says it’s not eating its SAN young http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/061209-cisco-san.html Cisco says the dropoff in its FibreChannel SAN revenue and market share in Q1 is attributable to three factors: an early stage migration to 8Gbps; a lower cost migration than rival Brocade; and exposure to financial buyers, which is hard hit by the recession. Jim Duffy 2009-06-12T12:00:00-04:00 EMC/NetApp recap on Data Domain http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/stor/2009/060809stor2.html Unless the EMC-NetApp-Data Domain changes in the past five days, here's what happened in NetApp's efforts to acquire the deduplication vendor. Deni Connor 2009-06-10T12:00:00-04:00 Storage performance/energy consumption rises http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/stor/2009/060809stor1.html Last week, industry arbiter The Storage Performance Council (SPC) announced a new benchmark for measuring the energy consumption of storage devices. Deni Connor 2009-06-08T12:00:00-04:00 Hitachi unveils virtualization clustering http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/stor/2009/060109stor2.html Hitachi Data Systems last week introduced clustering for its Universal Storage Platform V virtualization array, a move that disappointed many analysts in the industry because they expected HDS to announce a next-generation array that would rival EMC's V-Max. Deni Connor 2009-06-03T12:00:00-04:00 OpenSolaris 2009.06 filled with major virtualization, storage upgrades http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/060209-sun-opensolaris-virtualization.html Sun Monday made available the OpenSolaris 2009.06 operating system, which included for the first time Sun's Crossbow technology for creating virtual network infrastructure on a single system. John Fontana 2009-06-02T12:00:00-04:00 NetApp's $1.5B purchase of Data Domain focuses on de-dupe, backup http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/052009-netapp-buys-data-domain.html NetApp has agreed to purchase Data Domain for $1.5 billion in a deal that will bolster the storage company’s ability to de-duplicate data and provide backup for rival vendors like EMC and HP. Jon Brodkin 2009-05-20T12:00:00-04:00 Rackable becomes SGI http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/stor/2009/051809-stor2.html When storage and server vendor Rackable acquired SGI recently, no one expected the company would take the name of a flagging vendor. But that is exactly what happened – Rackable became Silicon Graphics International this week. Deni Connor 2009-05-20T12:00:00-04:00 USGA hooks into IBM cloud http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2009/ndc3/051809-cloud-usga.html Business resiliency was the main driver for the United States Golf Association when it recently chose the IBM cloud for email and data protection services. Neal Weinberg 2009-05-18T12:00:00-04:00