Scott Tyler Shafer

To keep pace with the competition, IBM Corp. is releasing two storage virtualization products by the end of July designed to help existing customers derive better utilization of storage assets.

At its annual TechEd conference, Microsoft Corp. on Monday introduced Windows Storage Server 2003

The Fibre Channel protocol's reign as the only high-speed storage protocol is now being challenged. At the Storage Networking World (SNW) conference in Phoenix, iSCSI, Serial ATA (SATA), and Serial attached SCSI (SAS) are seeing their share of vendor support and legitimizing much of the hype that have followed these "other" high-speed protocols.

As part of its re-emphasis on serving the enterprise market, Nortel Networks Corp. is announcing a family of wireless LAN products Monday.

Wireless switches are making inroads into the enterprise with a set of management and deployment features designed to make Wi-Fi technologies a must-buy

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Monday attempted to articulate a future computing architecture that combines elements of grid computing with storage networking.

EMC Corp. was once the undisputed champion of the storage industry. But as competition increased and the cost of storage plummeted, EMC lost valuable ground.

The battle for market share in the storage industry is likely to intensify as EMC Corp. reportedly prepares to launch the latest version of its high-end storage system, Symmetrix, next month.