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 ...

Without a way to put together multivendor storage components and manage them effectively, much of the value proposition of storage-area networks (SAN) is moot. Users are either shackled to one ...

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 ...

SANs had a troubled start, largely because they were based upon technology and standards that needed some wrinkles ironed out. If the SAN is grown in an unplanned way, its overall bandwidth can be ...

The Internet gave us a glimpse of what it means to plug PCs into the network and presto! We now have a data utility from any phone line. This is the third article in a series of one-to-one interviews ...

The 4G bit/sec Fibre Channel standard boosts the performance of storage-area networks by doubling speed while maintaining backward-compatibility with 1G and 2G bit/sec systems. In addition, 4G bit/sec ...

Editor's note: To view a PDF version of this article, click here. With the rapid deployment of storage-area networks come demands for decreased data access times, increased flexibility to partition ...

Open application program interfaces are fundamental to creating the kind of consolidated management systems that make storage networks so attractive The great promise of storage area networks is ...