Storage networking hardware includes three basic components: host adapters, storage targets and switch interconnects. In traditional SANs, these basic building blocks have been based on Fibre Channel ...

Let’s assume you like the idea of keeping your data on a storage-area network. After all, SANs offer increased performance and improved manageability, and data stored on a SAN can be made available to ...

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), ...

Faster SANs are on the horizon as the next Fibre Channel specification, calling for 32G bps (bits per second), nears publication. Fibre Channel is the traditional interface for storage area networks ...

Palo Alto, Calif.—Agilent Technologies Inc. announces industry-first test capabilities of its storage area network (SAN) tester that address the 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel standard, allowing storage network ...

HP this week is unveiling new hybrid hard drives that combine Fibre Channel and ATA technologies. Dubbed Fibre Attached Technology Adapted, or FATA, the new drives are aimed at dropping the cost of ...

“Fibre Channel is dead.” That was the controversial conclusion of one participant in a heated debate at an industry conference back in 2000. Industry vendors were investigating a new protocol – ...

Worldwide sales of storage area network switches rose 15 percent last year, largely driven by an industry transition toward a newer version of Fibre Channel technology, according to a new study.

Broadcom AVGO introduced the Brocade X8 Directors and Brocade G820 switches, the industry’s first 128G Fibre Channel ...

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 ...

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 ...

The company follows storage specialists and its major competitors into a comparatively new area: standalone storage systems that attach to ordinary computer networks. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...