Very few SRM companies offer products designed to simplify the task of storage management while providing the extended visibility. Solutions currently available tend to be far outside the budget range of the majority of businesses, and SolarWinds sees the opportunity to change the dynamic within the SRM market.

As organizations look for ways to lower costs, while still gaining from the benefit of shared storage technology, the choice between an iSCSI and FCoE solution continues to be pitted in IT boardrooms. How is the battleline forming? We ask David Dale, NetApp's industry standards director and chair of the SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum.

FalconStor and Violin Memory have combined their resources to produces a SAN accelerator that uses Flash solid-state drives (SSDs) for improved read and write speeds.

Dell'Oro reports that Fibre Channel (FC) switch port sales will experience a brief upward spike but will then continue to steadily decline.

Organizations are looking for ways to reduce overhead costs in running their data centers and making them more efficient. Here are some tips and strategies on how you can save dollars and improve efficiencies.

Cisco Systems launches its 16-Port Storage Services Node and Data Mobility Manager.

Compellent Technologies improves its Storage Center storage-area network with limited data replication, virtual ports, and added support for RAID 6.

Industrial process-automation equipment manufacturer Caltrol Inc. backed out of purchasing HP Co. LeftHand Networks SAN when it found out that Pillar offered more storage for the same price and performance.