In the life of any network environment, it is not uncommon for hardware to be replaced as technology improves. The item that is most likely to be replaced, whether due to improved performance or ...

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), ...

At Storage Networking World last week, a number of vendors, including Sanbolic, Agami Systems, Intel, Robobak and Spectra Logic unveiled bunches of products ranging from clustered file systems, to ...

Let’s assume you like the idea of keeping your data on a storage-area network. After all, SANs offer increased performance and improved manageability, and data stored on a SAN can be made available to ...

Hossein Shahrokhi is adding 20 servers to his Fibre Channel storage-area network (SAN) at the University of Houston-Downtown. But Shahrokhi, executive director of IT, isn’t laying new fiber-optic ...

In a turbulent computing era that is being redefined by highly virtualized environments, solid state storage and cloud-based architectures, unprecedented advancements in storage networks are needed to ...

HP this week is unveiling new hybrid hard drives that combine Fibre Channel and ATA technologies. Dubbed Fibre Attached Technology Adapted, or FATA, the new drives are aimed at dropping the cost of ...

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 ...

The Tachyon QE4 (HPFC-6600) 4G Fibre channel controller interfaces seamlessly with the company's relevant loop switch devices to create a complete fabric-to-disk-drive solution for enterprise storage ...

Aimed at the optical links existing in host bus adapters (HBAs), switches, and RAID modules, the TXN31015 and TXN31115 optical transceivers support the 4-Gbit/s Fibre Channel specification. The ...