The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) yesterday approved a protocol that will allow network administrators to eventually take millions of small servers that have been locked into direct-attached ...

What’s the best way to store and manage data in a virtualized environment? For IT administrators and system architects, this question is more than theoretical—it’s a critical decision that impacts ...

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 ...

Tom Clark is director of technical marketing at Nishan Systems Inc. and author of IP SANs: A Guide to iSCSI, iFCP,and FCIP Protocols for Storage Area Networks (Addison Wesley, 2001). He told ...

THE MARRIAGE OF networking and storage technologies is not only simplifying the way storage is managed, it also promises to revolutionize the way enterprise storage is used, allowing corporate data to ...

But what can iSCSI do for you? How about letting you go to CompUSA, buy three USB floppy disk drives, hang them off a Linux server and configure them into a RAID array from a Windows 2000 Server over ...

The iSCSI protocol has gained momentum as an alternative for Fibre Channel storage-area networks , and early adopters like it for the same reasons they like Ethernet – it’s inexpensive and easy to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based storage vendor has been offering hardware, application software and storage protocol bundles to its channel partners since last year to give solution providers the ...