But Fibre Channel's shortcomings, including its expense and lack of interoperability, have opened the door for companies such as Cisco Systems, FalconStor, IBM, Nishan Systems and SANValley Systems to ...

Network World's 2005 named LeftHand's Storage Area Network application, Remote IP Copy, as one of 42 finalist in its "Best of Test" for its ability to simplify the process of maintaining multiple ...

Although numerous storage technologies were developed to address these challenges, the continued growth of Internet access and new, rich content-based Web applications have organizations turning to IP ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Since the early 2000s, the storage industry has been at pains to develop an alternative to Fibre ...

For a long time now expanding storage meant buying more servers and disks. This has proved to be a costly method for increasing storage, and is often an inefficient way of doing things. We are now ...

We've been hearing for a long time about running storage over IP, particularly using the iSCSI protocol. We take a look at the technology, its applications, and some of the devices you can use. For a ...

With the availability of iSCSI systems, IP storage is giving IT managers the storage consolidation and flexibility they need without the added complexity and financial burden associated with Fibre ...

In the life of any network environment, it is not uncommon for hardware to be replaced as technology improves. The item that is most likely to be replaced, whether due to improved performance or ...

Federal agencies use risky network setups to support mission- and business-critical systems, particularly in light of global IP data center traffic growing 23 percent a year and taxing networks to ...

Few people will dispute the impact of hard drive storage on video recording. Few technologies can present such a paradigm shift to an industry as did the switch from VHS tapes to digital recording on ...

(Internet Protocol storage) Using the IP protocol to connect storage area networks (SANs) in remote locations. SANs can be extended across metropolitan area networks (MANs) and wide area networks ...