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 ...

The acceptance of server and storage virtualization has enabled a paradigm shift in how data center infrastructure is purchased and deployed. End user companies are migrating from purchasing separate ...

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of “Storage Area Network Fundamentals” (ISBN 158705065X ) published courtesy of Cisco Press. With the growing popularity of storage area networks (SANs), ...

As more servers were added to run business-critical applications, the problems with DAS became more exaggerated. In a client-server architecture, storage is local to each server. Each storage device ...

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Effectively using network storage technologies is a crucial part of any data storage management strategy. Simply relying on hard drives, JBODs or other types of local storage just isn't enough to ...

Storage consolidation is the practice of simplifying the storage infrastructure, allowing storage administrators to increase organization and control over their resources. The need for storage ...

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 ...

Storage vendors are playing off the buzzy grid computing term to draw attention to their tools for scaling NAS capacity. One analyst analyzes whether this latest storage concept has more than a catchy ...

* Editor’s note: Mike Karp is on vacation this week. As storage management continues to mature and new technologies like iSCSI impact the storage landscape, it is important to periodically consider ...

Generically, IP storage involves any storage functionality that is leveraging TCP/IP as a network transport -- using ubiquitous TCP/IP networks running on Ethernet or InfiniBand to perform storage ...