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 complexity can mask what might seem to be relatively benign issues that have the potential to build up and cause an outage or brownout. To identify trouble early, you need to ...

Not too long ago, storage and networking decisions were simple. There were fewer options, fewer vendors, and fewer technologies to choose from. These days there are more vendors, more networked ...

FRAMINGHAM, MASS. — The need for Internet storage has exploded over the past few years. Businesses are demanding ubiquitous network storage that supports multiple platforms — and they’re getting it, ...

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), ...

Similar to the way in which a storage-area network improves the management of structured data and block storage environments, a file-area network (FAN) helps improve the management of unstructured ...

SAN and NAS are distinct ways of deploying storage. They differ at fundamental levels of storage architecture, according to their relation to file system and block and physical addressing, but also ...

IBM on Tuesday announced a new device for linking storage networks, saying the product offers greater performance and compatibility with other companies' storage gear. The product, called 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 ...

The first requirement--sharing data between servers--is addressed by Network Attached Storage (NAS). A NAS device provides file access to clients that it connects to using file access protocols ...