Top Storage Stories of 2009: RAID, Clouds, SSDs and Mergers

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Article Source Enterprise Storage Forum

In a year of dramatic change and mergers for the data storage industry, it should come as no surprise that the most-read stories on Enterprise Storage Forum this year were about … dramatic change and mergers.
With EMC besting NetApp in the battle to acquire Data Domain, IBM and Oracle fighting over Sun Microsystems, Emulex spurning Broadcom’s advances, and NetApp and others rumored to be takeover targets, mergers, acquisitions and alliances accounted for four of the top 10 stories on ESF this year…