Enterprise Storage

Compellent rolls out Storage Center 5

EMC doubles density of Clariion, Celerra storage systems

New 2TB SATA drives consume 60% less power than earlier models

Pillar boosts Axiom’s capacity, performance

The new Axiom comes with the quad-core AMD Opteron 2354 chip

Arista, Blade win top spot in data center switch test

Grueling performance testing exposes weaknesses in Cisco, HP switches

Storage/data convergence: Cisco stands alone

Most vendors have at least some virtualization features, including support for virtual switches

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