The $210 million cash deal is expected to close in September. Acopia is a Lowell, Mass., file virtualization technology vendor. Dan Matte, senior vice president of marketing for F5, said his company ...

Similar to the way in which a storage-area network improves the management of structured data and block storage environments, a file-area network (FAN) helps improve the management of unstructured ...

Last week I wrote about the new version of F5 Networks’ WebAccelerator software, which can accelerate Web application traffic between two Big-IP devices. Shortly after unveiling that product upgrade, ...

Like EMC itself, the recently-concluded EMC World conference in Las Vegas offered a wide variety of ways to best deploy storage and the cloud. A big part of that is new hardware and software products ...

What’s the best way to store and manage data in a virtualized environment? For IT administrators and system architects, this question is more than theoretical—it’s a critical decision that impacts ...

As the economy slows down and budgets tighten up, once again IT professionals are being asked to do more with less (does anyone remember when you were allowed to do less with more?). How can you ...

These days, the storage demands of users and applications are spiraling out of control in many enterprises. Additional disks and storage subsystems are frequently implemented to meet demands. But ...