There has been much discussion and a good dose of confusion about the term ISCSI. This relatively new protocol for storage technology offers many compelling benefits, including solid performance and ...

Over the past several years, storage-hungry applications such as e-commerce, data warehousing and online multimedia have placed enormous demands on computing infrastructures, not only from a network ...

When iSCSI first began to appear, there were several companies -- LeftHand Networks, EqualLogic (now owned by Dell), and others -- which developed storage solutions based solely on the protocol. But ...

Depending on whom you ask, the iSCSI protocol, expected to be finalized in the next six months, either will play a significant role in the future of storage networking or will become just another ...

When I first learned that the latest and greatest in nework attached storage (NAS) was using a TCP/IP implimentation of SCSI I heard alarm bells going off. Back up and recovery is a bandwidth ...

We’ve all been hearing about the simplicity and low cost of iSCSI for years now — and how iSCSI would topple FC (Fibre Channel) as the storage networking technology of choice for shops moving from DAS ...

Last week another third-party vendor demonstrated that it was still supporting NetWare – that’s always good news! At last week’s Storage Networking World meeting in Orlando, Wasabi Systems launched ...

In our last entry we discussed selecting the right storage foundation and I advised that you may want to initially ignore what protocol to use. That said, part of building a storage foundation for ...

The storage industry constantly faces the challenge of trying to manage ever increasing amounts of information efficiently and inexpensively. As a result, iSCSI-based IP storage-area networks (SANs) ...

The next generation of enterprise computing infrastructure is envisioned as a collection of standard, inexpensive, even disposable computing and storage components bound by specialised software into a ...

Hitachi Data Systems has joined forces with switch-maker McData to offer lower-cost networked data storage to small and midsize businesses. HDS, which makes hard-drive-based storage devices, said ...

IBM and Cisco are continuing their collaboration on storage area networks (SANs), touting long-distance connectivity and cost savings through the new Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) protocol. The two ...