Brocade, Oracle partner for SAN connectivity; Cloud computing, virtualization proponents getting antsy

Cloud computing, virtualization proponents getting antsy; Judge dismisses lawsuit challenging Gartner's Magic Quadrant Storage Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile | Forward this to a Friend >>> Sponsored by ComTech AHA Triple the Storage, half the Power. Maximize your Storage while using less power and increasing capacity. Hardware compression can result in over a 3X capacity increase at less than half the power. Visit Comtech AHA to learn more about how to improve the performance of your system using hardware compression. Learn More Now Spotlight Story Brocade, Oracle partner for database, SAN connectivity In a sweeping announcement, Brocade and Oracle last week introduced a variety of solutions designed specifically for use with Oracle database and applications. Based on existing partnerships with NetApp, Sun/StorageTek and EMC, Brocade and Oracle have put together end-to-end networking packages for data warehousing, business applications and virtualization environments. 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