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 ...

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It’s high time to re-engineer the storage stack to enable storage area network or SAN performance in the cloud, a growing trend reflecting what information technology departments could expect ...

Here at Miami, we have a lot of systems running to keep the campus afloat. With those systems comes data and files that need to be stored. As one can imagine, with a footprint as big as Miami's, that ...

Cisco’s MDS 9000 Series multilayer switches, including the MDS 9148V switch, have been tested and validated for use in AI-oriented IBM z17 mainframe environments. Cisco Fibre Channel switches can now ...

Nimbus Data Systems last week announced two iSCSI and network-attached storage appliances – the Breeze VH630 and the Breeze MH860 – for use in midsize enterprises. Both appliances connect to the ...

The HDMP-2689 is a miniature, 19- x 19-mm, four-port serializer/deserializer (serdes) designed specifically for Fibre Channel storage-area networking (SAN) equipment. The device consumes 1.7 watts and ...

Most organizations choose to build their first SAN out of just a few servers (or high-speed workstations) located in close proximity to each other — for example, within a NOC or WOC. That is a good ...

It's all about the SAN -- man. The more you know, the easier it is. Take our SAN quiz and find out where you stand as a SAN guru. 1. This is a geographically dispersed telecommunications network. The ...

Excerpted from the book “Practical Storage Area Networking” by Daniel Pollack with permission from Addison-Wesley Professional.” After a SAN has been designed and physically integrated, a significant ...

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