Thursday, August 21, 2008

Rackable Systems divests,; Nexan adds SMB NAS device; IBM releases XIV clustered storage

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DENI CONNOR ON STORAGE ALERT
08/21/08

Rackable Systems divests,; Nexan adds SMB NAS device; IBM
releases XIV clustered storage
http://www.networkworld.com/nlstorage155076

By Deni Connor

Today, we have storage news from Rackable Systems, which is
dropping its RapidScale storage product; Nexsan, which unveiled
The Edge SMB storage system; and IBM, which released its XIV
clustered storage system.Read full story
http://www.networkworld.com/nlstorage155076

Deni Connor mailto:dconnor@ssg-now.com is principal analyst
for Storage Strategies NOW http://www.ssg-now.com .

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