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 ...

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Nimbus Data Systems last week announced two iSCSI and network-attached storage appliances – the Breeze VH630 and the Breeze MH860 – for use in midsize enterprises. Both appliances connect to the ...

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 ...

It’s high time to re-engineer the storage stack to enable storage area network or SAN performance in the cloud, a growing trend reflecting what information technology departments could expect ...

The HDMP-2689 is a miniature, 19- x 19-mm, four-port serializer/deserializer (serdes) designed specifically for Fibre Channel storage-area networking (SAN) equipment. The device consumes 1.7 watts and ...

A business may start off with only five employees and quickly grow to 25, so it's just as important to think about your network as it is to think about data storage and management. As a company grows, ...

It's all about the SAN -- man. The more you know, the easier it is. Take our SAN quiz and find out where you stand as a SAN guru. 1. This is a geographically dispersed telecommunications network. The ...

Most organizations choose to build their first SAN out of just a few servers (or high-speed workstations) located in close proximity to each other — for example, within a NOC or WOC. That is a good ...

It seemed to come out of nowhere. IT professionals used to talk about storage like people used to drink coffee before Starbucks came along--need it, got it, but not that interesting. Today, the ...

Excerpted from the book “Practical Storage Area Networking” by Daniel Pollack with permission from Addison-Wesley Professional.” After a SAN has been designed and physically integrated, a significant ...

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