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Stories by: Mike Karp

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    Aperi vs. EMC: What's the squabble all about? 19 July, 2006 08:29:28

    Last week, we introduced the players on either side of the Aperi battle. Today and next time we'll look at content - what there is of it, anyway.
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    The storage industry's Wild Wild West 12 July, 2006 08:27:01

    There's trouble in Standardsville, pardner, and it looks like there's a battle a-brewin'. So strap on yer six-shooters, mosey on down to the corral and saddle up them broncs. We got some hard ridin' to do. The Aperi gang may be comin' to town and some of the townsfolk are up in arms.
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    InfiniBand: Back to the beginning 20 February, 2006 12:42:05

    Some readers may remember efforts during the 1990s by Compaq, HP and IBM to deliver a high-speed serial connection technology called Future I/O. Some may also recall a competing technology -- Next Generation I/O (NGIO) -- from a group consisting of Intel, Microsoft, and Sun. Eventually the two camps merged their efforts to work on what all commonly saw as the next generation of technology for connecting servers and storage.
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    The future of storage 12 January, 2006 11:05:26

    Predicting the future is perilous business indeed. However, as an industry analyst one of the sad facts of life that I have had to face is the reality that it is awfully hard to find clients willing to pay me to predict the past. This is an unfortunate situation, but it is, alas, the way of things.
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    Sun's big potential in storage 12 October, 2005 11:10:14

    Sun's acquisition of StorageTek in June is still in its early days, and by no means has the dust begun to settle. And yet, a few things are becoming clear.
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    Why SAS and SATA are so attractive to users and resellers 26 September, 2005 08:01:57

    Serial-attached SCSI, serial ATA and the storage reseller community are all going to be great friends.
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    Why will you like SAS? 06 July, 2005 15:13:38

    In San Jose last week, Bell Micro, Fujitsu, LSI Logic and Supermicro got together to hold a coming out party for Serial Attach SCSI, or SAS, the newest incarnation of the SCSI device interface.
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    What's on the horizon for CA? 22 June, 2005 15:11:56

    Computer Associates has been around in one form or another ever since computers ran on coal. Over the almost 30 years of its history CA has grown - both organically and through frequent acquisitions - into the fifth largest software firm in the world.
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    Sun's StorageTek buy makes Sun a significant player in storage 08 June, 2005 10:27:01

    On June 2, Sun announced its intent to acquire StorageTek in a cash purchase. At US$4.1 billion, this is one of the largest high-tech acquisitions in recent history, bigger than EMC's US$1.7 billion purchase of Documentum, although far smaller than HP's US$25 billion purchase of Compaq.
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    How vendors size you up 18 May, 2005 07:57:22

    Well, the last month of the second quarter is just around the corner, and storage sales reps with quotas to meet are preparing to come knocking on your door. How they size you up will determine which products they pitch to you.
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    Consolidating the mgmt. of all your storage vendors' equipment 27 April, 2005 11:11:31

    One of the highest priorities for the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is to enable IT managers to manage a heterogeneous storage environment from a single, consolidated management point. This will mean that buyers of IT equipment can make hardware purchasing decisions based on features, functionality, serviceability and so forth, but without having to worry about the long-term issue of managing disparate resources from different vendors.
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