Avago Technologies has announced it is acquiring publicly traded Emulex for $8/share, in an all cash transaction topping $606 million. Avago has been busy the last year or so, buying LSI in December 2013 for $6.6 billion, before selling off LSI's storage business to Seagate in May of last year for $450 million. The combination

Connected Data has announced the Transporter 15 and 30, two new private cloud file sync and share appliances designed to deliver critical business-class file sharing features, performance and capacity to small businesses, departments and remote offices. Both appliances help preserve the privacy and control of business data all the while offering users with the same benefits and experience

Brocade has announced that it has expanded its relationship with EMC Corporation by creating the industry's first network switch designed for IP storage, the Connectrix VDX-6740B. Brocade has added its VCS Ethernet fabric solutions to EMC's Connectrix family of network switches in order to create the VDX-6740B.

Patriot has announced the EP PRO-II SDXC card, their first UHS-II capable device and the newest addition to their portfolio of flash memory. The new EP PRO-II SDXC is designed to support the latest generation of high-performing mobile devices with high definition and ultra-high definition capabilities.

In the ongoing legal battle between Diablo technologies and Netlist, Netlist won a victory today as the United States Patent and Trademark Office denied 4 out of 5 petitions for Inter Parts Reviews (IPR) of Netlist patents. SanDisk, who is partnered with Diablo Technologies to produce the ULLtraDIMM, which is the center of the IPR petitions,

According to results of Dell’Oro’s quarterly report on Switching Market Share, Cisco has come out as number one in both combined fibre channel + fiber-channel-over-Ethernet (FC + FCoE) revenue and they took the number one spot in FC Modular share. These gains in Cisco’s market share are due primarily to customer acceptance of the MDS

Today QLogic announced that its 16Gb Gen 5 Fibre Channel adapters are now shipping in Fujitsu PRIMERGY and PRIMEQUEST servers. The collaboration allows Fujitsu customers to deploy end-to-end Gen 5 SANs in combination with ETERNUS Gen 5 Fibre Channel disk storage systems. This collaboration is the latest with QLogic that is aimed at satisfying enterprise-class server and

Seagate has unveiled the Seagate Kinetic HDD, the company’s new object-based storage drive that uses the Kinetic Open Storage platform. Seagate’s HDD is designed to dramatically reduce total cost of ownership by combining an open source object storage protocol with Ethernet connectivity to eliminate multiple layers of legacy software and hardware infrastructure, which in turn

SwiftStack is a unified storage platform that runs on Linux with commodity hardware in order to provide massively scalable, software-defined storage. SwiftStack is based on the OpenStack Swift object storage engine and uses an out-of-band controller that conceptualizes storage as a data plane (physical storage) and a control plane (data and metadata management layer).