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 ...

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 ...

Big-data practitioners are generally hostile to shared storage. Nonetheless, can the big storage box vendors play in the big-data amusement park? John Webster Special to CNET News John, a senior ...

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 ...

A storage area network (SAN) is a pool of centrally managed storage resources, but how is a SAN different from NAS, and how are SANs being impacted by flash storage, AI and hyperconvergence? A storage ...

Who would have thought that storing bits could get so incredibly complicated? Storage has always contained a plethora of protocols, from Fibre Channel to iSCSI to SMB in all its variations, but the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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