Effectively using network storage technologies is a crucial part of any data storage management strategy. Simply relying on hard drives, JBODs or other types of local storage just isn't enough to ...

Storage area network (SAN) and network attached storage (NAS) technologies are moving to new distributed-storage architectures. Both are being reconfigured to combine network technologies like ...

Innovation is ultimately driven by need, and networked storage is no exception. The competitive business climate demands increasing data storage capabilities, including availability, recovery, ...

Some of these features were supported by other storage media, but the hard disk was the first medium to support all of these features. Consequently, the hard disk helped make many advances possible in ...

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...

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), ...

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 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 ...

How will NVMe flash affect storage area networking, in particular with the introduction of NVMe-over-fabrics? Storage area networks (SANs) and shared storage have been in the enterprise datacentre for ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Since the early 2000s, the storage industry has been at pains to develop an alternative to Fibre ...