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 ...

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 ...

Karen Schwartz is a freelance technology writer based in the Washington D.C. area. Imagine the effect on a university's network when thousands of students rush to register online for classes as soon ...

If there’s any easy way to tell products apart in the iSCSI SAN server space, it’s in the support for advanced data protection features like snapshots and replication. If there’s any easy way to tell ...

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 ...

Storage area networks (SANs) must scale to accommodate the added demands of more users along with a proliferation of more sophisticated enterprise applications. In the Fibre Channel world, scaling ...

Data is a valuable commodity that sits at the heart of our IT systems, whether on-premise or in the public cloud. The need to retain our data on persistent storage media, however, has been around ...

Network storage lets you centrally store and access your documents and files from all PCs on the network. Windows already provides a simple way to share files (and printers) to the network, but the PC ...

In 1993, when Intel ushered in the modern computing age by releasing its Pentium chips, devices roared along at then-astounding speeds of around 60 MHz. Today's mainstream CPUs reach speeds of around ...

Network-attached storage (NAS) can make your business easier to run and more efficient in multiple ways. NAS boxes started out as simple ethernet-connected file servers for workgroup storage and ...