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 ...

(Mods, if you feel this belongs in a different forum, feel free to move). Mostly a mental exercise, but contemplating restructuring my setup at home, and puzzling over options. I currently have a box, ...

Today's Storage Manager is faced with more shared storage connectivity choices than ever. Off the top of my head there is SAS, iSCSI, NAS, AoE, FCoE and of course good old Fibre Channel. One would ...

It’s high time to re-engineer the storage stack to enable storage area network or SAN performance in the cloud, a growing trend reflecting what information technology departments could expect ...

PHOENIX — The Fibre Channel protocol’s reign as the only high-speed storage protocol is now being challenged. Here at SNW, iSCSI, Serial ATA (SATA), and Serial attached SCSI (SAS) are seeing their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Data-communications equipment doesn't live in a silo. It lives in a network or other system with other devices and it most communicate with them. In other words, devices on a network or other ...

Business Development Lead Louis Albuerne represented CESS at the conference. Throughout Louis' career, he has always gravitated toward "The Next Great Thing" and he was involved in the early ...