Microsoft Azure Elastic SAN review: Why should you put your storage network in the cloud? Your email has been sent An issue that comes up repeatedly when building cloud-hosted virtual infrastructures ...

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 ...

The acceptance of server and storage virtualization has enabled a paradigm shift in how data center infrastructure is purchased and deployed. End user companies are migrating from purchasing separate ...

Karen Schwartz is a freelance technology writer based in the Washington D.C. area. Imagine the effect on a university's network when thousands of students rush to register online for classes as soon ...

As the demand for bandwidth grows, so does the reach of networks. Users need to access data globally, from multiple locations around the world, quickly and transparently without breaking budgets. Data ...

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As more servers were added to run business-critical applications, the problems with DAS became more exaggerated. In a client-server architecture, storage is local to each server. Each storage device ...

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), ...

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 ...

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 ...

Storage consolidation is the practice of simplifying the storage infrastructure, allowing storage administrators to increase organization and control over their resources. The need for storage ...

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 ...