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), ...

At Storage Networking World last week, a number of vendors, including Sanbolic, Agami Systems, Intel, Robobak and Spectra Logic unveiled bunches of products ranging from clustered file systems, to ...

Hossein Shahrokhi is adding 20 servers to his Fibre Channel storage-area network (SAN) at the University of Houston-Downtown. But Shahrokhi, executive director of IT, isn’t laying new fiber-optic ...

Today and next week we will look ahead to more trends that we are likely to see in the New Year. At this point, it is time to make the obligatory comments about iSCSI and Fibre Channel storage-area ...

HP this week is unveiling new hybrid hard drives that combine Fibre Channel and ATA technologies. Dubbed Fibre Attached Technology Adapted, or FATA, the new drives are aimed at dropping the cost of ...

In a turbulent computing era that is being redefined by highly virtualized environments, solid state storage and cloud-based architectures, unprecedented advancements in storage networks are needed to ...

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 ...

Broadcom launched Emulex Secure HBAs, providing cost-effective, end-to-end encryption and improved security for data centers amid rising cyber threats. Broadcom Inc. has introduced the Emulex Secure ...