The struggling company will announce a critical new product Monday, a switch for storage networks that closes the gap between competitors' technology. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Brocade Monday said it has finalized its $973 million buyout of rival storage switch maker McData and outlined a plan for what stays, goes and gets integrated among their products. The companies, ...

You don't build a home lab for gaming or lightweight workloads. Most home labs are geared toward specialized use cases, such ...

Nearly three and a half years after announcing a high-end storage switch, Cisco says the market is finally ready for it. Sources say that the company, which is already among the market leaders in ...

Cisco Thursday bolstered its storage-switching platform by adding intelligence to its MDS 9000 line that allows for network-based virtualization. The company also released software that will let ...

Cisco, which already holds a stake in Andiamo, will exchange Cisco stock for shares of Andiamo it does not own. The final price, which Cisco said could be as high as $2.5 billion, will be based on ...

McData Corp. today will unveil a director-class switch that offers 256 ports, multiple network protocols and hard-partitioning capabilities. Analysts said the switch will allow consolidation of a ...