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 ...

Over the past several years, storage-hungry applications such as e-commerce, data warehousing and online multimedia have placed enormous demands on computing infrastructures, not only from a network ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...