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10 quick-hit observations from VMware's annual conference.

HP moves into the high-end NAS market with the acquisition of its long-time partner.

Going far beyond the basic integration and certification activities that one would expect for support of a popular application, storage products 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.

EMC Corp. said it is expanding its Mozy online backup service with a new option targeted primarily at Mac users and small businesses.

Patents weakened - more could fall Sun is crowing that a judicial ruling in the NetApp_Sun IP lawsuit has effectively invalidated another NetApp patent. The US Patent Office also appears to be rejecting NetApp's key patents in the law suit. NetApp's position looks like it's crumbling..

End-to-end 8gig SANS coming? Disk array sub-system supplier Xyratex has introduced its fastest-ever array by adding an 8Gbit/s Fibre Channel (FC) product along with new RAID 6 capabilities..

Dell will combine its storage hardware with Symantec or CommVault software for SMB backup and recovery.

The 5big network is a five-bay RAID storage system that features a built-in Gigabit Ethernet connection