In the life of any network environment, it is not uncommon for hardware to be replaced as technology improves. The item that is most likely to be replaced, whether due to improved performance or ...

Storage area network (SAN) technology has been around since the late 1990s, but historically it was priced far out of the range of small IT departments. Now this option for making more-efficient use ...

Innovation is ultimately driven by need, and networked storage is no exception. The competitive business climate demands increasing data storage capabilities, including availability, recovery, ...

Today's organizations are demanding high-speed data protection for complex and resource-intensive data such as image, audio, and video files—as well as for large databases. In addition, the amount of ...

The company follows storage specialists and its major competitors into a comparatively new area: standalone storage systems that attach to ordinary computer networks. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

CAMPBELL, Calif. – Silverback Systems Inc. is introducing a family of processors under the iSNAP name intended for Internet Protocol (IP)-based storage networks. The first iSNAP processor, the ...

How will NVMe flash affect storage area networking, in particular with the introduction of NVMe-over-fabrics? Storage area networks (SANs) and shared storage have been in the enterprise datacentre for ...

We've been hearing for a long time about running storage over IP, particularly using the iSCSI protocol. We take a look at the technology, its applications, and some of the devices you can use. For a ...

A key standards body has given its blessing for a new technology that allows storage area networks to be built using existing Ethernet networking. Late Tuesday, the Internet Engineering Task Force ...

Managing data storage is ever more complex. IT teams have to wrestle with local, direct-attached storage, storage area networks, network attached storage and cloud storage volumes. They might be ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Storage area networks (SANs) allow multiple processors to share a pool of common storage. It is a ...