It's no secret in the industry that competition between Network Appliance Inc. (NetApp) and EMC Corp. is fierce. As NetApp pushes into the midrange storage area network (SAN) space with its FAS3000 ...

Network Appliance, Inc. (NetApp) has filed suit in U.S. District Court in Texas against Sun Microsystems, Inc., claiming that Sun violated seven of its patents for its RAID products and its Write ...

Network Appliance on Wednesday said it has responded to allegations from Sun that it infringes on its intellectual property by suing Sun and seeking an injunction against the sale of its latest file ...

The move could impact other vendors who use Open Source software, including Apple Computer. Sun started talking to NetApp about 18 months ago about licensing its ZFS file system, saying NetApp ...

About 18 months ago, Sun's lawyers contacted NetApp with a list of patents they say we infringe, and requested that we pay them lots of money. We responded in two ways. First, we closely examined ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Its war between Sun Microsystems and Network Appliance, and the blogosphere is the battleground -- for now. Here's the breakdown of events: *Sun accused NetApp of infringing on its patent copyrights ...

NetApp is taking the gloves off against its traditional and startup flash storage competitors with the introduction of a new family of all-flash storage arrays that share the same software as its ...