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 ...

ATA over Ethernet provides a cheap way to network servers with a large pool of storage--but it's got some catches. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

As file sizes and data sets grow into the terabyte and petabyte range, users are looking for a method for storing, accessing and sharing the files among different hosts. That’s where clustered and ...

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 ...

At a special event at this week’s NAB 2004, Apple introduced Xsan, a Storage Area Network (SAN) file system priced at US$999 per system. The new file system is aimed at users in video and other ...

There’s nothing like free software to save some drain on your storage management or data protection budget — if that free software works, of course. There’s nothing like free software to save some ...