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 ...

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 ...

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 ...