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Emulex acquires chip-maker Aarohi
Emulex Corp. announced it is buying intelligent storage processor vendor Aarohi Communications Inc. for $39 million, in order to gain access to technology used in the heart of its storage area network (SAN) technology.

SNW: Cisco adds 13-slot device to storage line
Cisco has added a new model to its MDS 9500 Series line of directors that can be used to build denser storage networks.

Brief: Apple Xsan v1.3 arrives
Apple Computer Inc. said its Xsan v1.3, the latest release of the company's storage area network (SAN) software, is available today.

Opinion: De-duplication guarantees -- are they just gimmicks?
De-duplication guarantees are gimmicks, and letting a vendor set all of the ground rules primarily benefits the vendor and ultimately still leaves the user holding the bag, writes Jerome Wendt.

Opinion: Is performance back on top?
Through the deployment of multiple tiers of storage within a frame, and the influence of factors such as aggregation and allocation of bandwidth, performance has once again emerged as a priority ahead of availability and recovery.

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Going far beyond the basic integration and certification activities that one would expect for support of a popular application, storage vendors are integrating management functionality and working to develop other ways to distinguish and differentiate their VMware support, and with that have come some bold claims.

Storage Virtualization
With storage virtualization, large numbers of physical resources are viewed as a single resource, which helps automate tasks such as backup and recovery. Read about the technology's history and market.

Your Own Virtualization Flight Test
Industry watchers offer five key questions to ask yourself and your prospective vendors before choosing a storage virtualization technology.

Opinion: The heartburn and happiness of virtualization
IT administrators are apparently willing to deal with the new management issues that virtualization creates, such as I/O performance bottlenecks and the inability to trace performance problems back to the source application. All this for cost savings and efficiency.

Opinion: The elusiveness of data classification
For those who simply want to facilitate a more effective tiered storage infrastructure, the most practical approach is to align based on applications rather than data. As technologies such as advanced file system and metadata management evolve, data classification options will increase.

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