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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week, Xiotech Corporation launched the Magnitude 3D 1000m mobile storage area network specifically designed to meet the needs of government agencies. The Magnitude 3D 1000m makes it easier for ...

The first requirement--sharing data between servers--is addressed by Network Attached Storage (NAS). A NAS device provides file access to clients that it connects to using file access protocols ...

Jacquelyn Bengfort is a freelance writer based in Washington, DC. A social anthropologist by training, she writes on topics from education to the military, gender to fictional post-apocalyptic ...

It was only a few years ago that storage-area networks (SAN) were used exclusively by early-adopter technologists and those who could justify the ROI from what would be a large investment in hardware, ...