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 ...

With iSCSI making major inroads into the enterprise environment, more CIOs and storage administrators are considering this lower-cost technology to help facilitate a move to a centralized storage ...

While both technologies allow small businesses to centralize their storage, they do so differently. With NAS, data is stored in a file format for ease in file sharing over IP networks, while ...

What you will learn from this tip: How to get the support you need for iSCSI SANs using more than two clusters. Microsoft is supporting iSCSI SANs using clustering under two different programs. The ...

The government’s storage story often focuses on the massive information stores at headquarters, but smaller offices also accumulate data holdings — and headaches. Storage-area networks (SANs) based on ...

My organization is slowly migrating our Physical servers to virtual servers running ESXi. I currently have a single ESX server running 6 virtual machines. We are contemplating going to a SAN to store ...

There has been much discussion and a good dose of confusion about the term ISCSI. This relatively new protocol for storage technology offers many compelling benefits, including solid performance and ...

This article first appeared in "Storage" magazine in their March issue. For more articles of this type, please visit www.storagemagazine.com. What you will learn from this tip: A few different ways to ...

This forum is great... Thanks for making it.<BR><BR>So, whats the appropriate use for iSCSI vs FC SAN.<BR><BR>I am part of a small IT group at a small-medium sized University, which is woefully behind ...

MPC Computers rolled out the newest version of its DataFrame iSCSI SAN (storage area network) this week featuring improved RAID performance and allowing customers the option of running either iSCSI or ...

iSCSI is easy, but it's also easy to do wrong. Here's how to avoid the common pitfalls and ensure your iSCSI SAN hums right along Since its arrival six years ago, iSCSI has taken the storage world by ...

In the storage business, a popular metric for measuring management costs is to compute “T-byte/FTE”, which is how many TB a FTE can manage. While that may seem a bit over the top at first glance, ...