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 ...

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Today's organizations are demanding high-speed data protection for complex and resource-intensive data such as image, audio, and video files—as well as for large databases. In addition, the amount of ...

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), ...

Ok, so you’re a CIO or CTO and have decided to purchase that spanking new, shiny server. You smile politely at the vendor until they mention storage. As the vendor starts to go into the benefits of ...

Struggling Gadzoox Networks will announce a critical new product Monday, a switch for storage networks that closes the gap between competitors' technology. Gadzoox makes equipment that lets companies ...

Managing storage technology is an oxymoron these days. It seems like the more tools you add to manage your increasingly complex environment, the more convoluted the environment becomes. Nirvana is ...

The Department of Defense is finishing the deployment of a storage backbone with more than 17,000 Fibre Channel switch ports to link disparate storage-area networks (SAN) and increase security and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Similar to the way in which a storage-area network improves the management of structured data and block storage environments, a file-area network (FAN) helps improve the management of unstructured ...