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Emulex drives Gen 5 Fibre Channel

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Emulex Corporation has announced that more ecosystem partners have certified its LightPulse® Gen 5 (16Gb) Fibre Channel (FC) Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) for flash storage, backup and security solutions, further extending the Gen 5 FC ecosystem. ATTO Technology, Bloombase, Imation, Permabit and Violin Memory have certified Emulex Gen 5 FC HBAs with their solutions, enabling the most scalable, highly responsive solutions to accelerate applications, virtualisation and I/O-intensive applications....

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HP to transform data transfer network utilising managed cloud environment under six-year contract extension.

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As cloud storage technology is increasingly adopted for a broad range of consumer and business applications, the storage landscape is transitioning away from traditional disk arrays to object-based storage systems. A recent IDC report predicts that the market for File- and Object-Based Storage (FOBS) will experience an annual growth rate of 24.5% through 2017, reaching $38 billion. “Increased versatility will result in more diverse use cases for FOBS,” said IDC.

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IBM has unveiled the eighth annual "IBM 5 in 5" – a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and interact during the next five years.