The name of Clinton Vaughan is mud this week in the storage industry, as the analyst from Salomon Smith Barney has caused a scare in the storage industry by announcing that he had cut financial estimates for five companies in the sector.
IBM has combined the technologies it picked up in its latest two acquisitions with internally-developed code to add several new products to the storage management line-up sold under its Tivoli subsidiary.
Hewlett-Packard and EMC, the biggest and third biggest storage vendors in the world, have sued each other over patent infringements, bringing into focus a new schism in the storage industry.
McData has extended its Intrepid line of director-class Fibre Channel switches, this time with a 140-port model that more than doubles the capabilities of its predecessors.
Storagetek has released a new disk array capable of using drives with 146GB capacity, but industry focus has already turned to tape drives with 200GB capacity coming from the company next week.
The distasteful row between Hewlett-Packard and EMC over patent infringements gave a slightly off-colour hue to the industry this week, as investors worried about lost focus.
Network Appliance has moved from the network attached storage area into what it calls a "unified storage approach" based on standardised networking technologies.
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