Enterprise Storage

Brocade, Oracle partner for database, SAN connectivity

Veterans agency looks beyond EMC for multi-million storage deal

VA instead enlists Vion/Hitachi for 2 petabytes of tiered storage

Cloud computing, virtualization proponents getting antsy

Cloud service interoperability, virtualization of mission critical apps among next big things

Judge dismisses lawsuit challenging Gartner’s Magic Quadrant

ZL Technologies had accused Gartner of a multitude of illegalities; judge disagrees

The week in storage: Part 2

SteelEye, 3PAR, Brocade and Thales make announcements

Acadia gets cloud-computing venture rolling in Asia

¨Cisco, EMC and VMware are already at 'handshake level' with Asian customers

Cisco’s data center guru talks direction, strategy

John McCool addresses everything from market shifts to computing paradigms and service integration.

The week in storage: Part 1

Automated tiering key to getting value from SSDs

Vendors are developing software to place high-demand data in fast flash storage

EMC teams with Intel for power-efficient cloud storage

Intel is working with several vendors to build more energy-efficient systems for cloud computing