Storage acquisitions abound, funding frees up

	EMC to buy Isilon for $2.25 billion | Brocade releases Ethernet storage switch family
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	Storage acquisitions abound, funding frees up Last week Wednesday, EMC acquired Bus-Tech, a vendor whose appliances allow mainframe data to be stored on open systems storage. The company, who has been an EMC partner for several years, makes the Mainframe Data Library, a virtual tape library controller for IBM and Unisys mainframes that replaces mainframe tape infrastructures with open systems storage. Read More WHITE PAPER: Iron Mountain Backing Up Your Servers: Why It's Essential Read this white paper to examine the setbacks of traditional backup, gain a better understanding of online backup, and discover why Iron Mountain's LiveVault solution for automated server backup and recovery won the 2006 award for Best Storage Software Solution from the Software and Information Industry Association. Read now. In this Issue EMC to buy Isilon for $2.25 billion Brocade releases Ethernet storage switch family There's Little Need For Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Brocade CEO says Ethernet fabrics will undermine Cisco's dominance DOWNLOAD: Vyatta Vyatta Core 6.1 – Free Community Software The Vyatta network operating system is a scalable, integrated, enterprise-class networking solution that delivers advanced routing and network security functionality for physical, virtual and cloud networking environments. Read now! EMC to buy Isilon for $2.25 billion EMC announced Monday it is buying NAS vendor Isilon Systems for roughly $2.25 billion. Both companies' boards have approved the deal, which is expected to be finalized later this year. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers The market for products to improve the delivery of application software over networks remains dynamic and innovative. Vendors focused on solving enterprises' most-pressing application problems have become the top players. Read now! Brocade releases Ethernet storage switch family Brocade announced the release of a new line of Ethernet-based switches that will allow standard server traffic to share networks with data storage traffic, offering administrators a method of reducing network complexity and cost. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Performance Metrics and the Cloud Unlike static configuration management databases, which often contain information too outdated for real-time understanding, a dynamic operational service model provides relevant, timely information. Read More There's Little Need For Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Microsoft has announced a new release of its Windows Storage Server 2008 software, a product previously codenamed Breckenridge. As with previous versions of Windows Storage Server, the 2008 R2 release isn't an end-user product but instead is intended for sale to electronics makers who can deploy it in the likes of NAS hardware devices. Read More Brocade CEO says Ethernet fabrics will undermine Cisco's dominance Brocade swallowed Foundry Networks a few years ago and has been hard at work ever since marrying the best of Brocade's storage network assets with Foundry's high-end Ethernet network tech. The result, says CEO Michael Klayko, is an emerging product line that positions the company perfectly for the demands of the virtualized, cloud-ready data center, and perfectly to steal share from Cisco. Read More
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