Enterprise Storage

Management and usability: Extreme goes its own way

Power consumption: Blade is most efficient

Latency and jitter: Cut-through design pays off for Arista, Blade

Link aggregation: Arista, Blade and Cisco fare best

Multicast group capacity: Extreme comes out on top

Multicast join/leave delay: Arista and Dell are swell

Cisco releases services-oriented SAN network line card

One card can provide encryption, FCIP, data erasure and backup acceleration

The state of the data center: Part 2

Compellent updates storage array

Compellent adds SAS drives, RAID 6 to flagship SAN

SAN allows automated tiering between drives, and RAID types

The state of the data center: Part 1

W3C posts draft standard for local database storage

The Indexed Database API will allow Web apps to store structured data in browsers

Predictable storage predictions for 2010

EMC to lead storage industry and acquire another company