The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) yesterday approved a protocol that will allow network administrators to eventually take millions of small servers that have been locked into direct-attached ...

What’s the best way to store and manage data in a virtualized environment? For IT administrators and system architects, this question is more than theoretical—it’s a critical decision that impacts ...

Tom Clark is director of technical marketing at Nishan Systems Inc. and author of IP SANs: A Guide to iSCSI, iFCP,and FCIP Protocols for Storage Area Networks (Addison Wesley, 2001). He told ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — ServerWorks Corp. has tipped plans to support the iSCSI protocol for Internet Protocol-based storage networks in its X86 server chip sets. Although details of the company's approach ...

THE MARRIAGE OF networking and storage technologies is not only simplifying the way storage is managed, it also promises to revolutionize the way enterprise storage is used, allowing corporate data to ...

Although my motherboard features plenty of SATA and NVMe ports, I’m at an impasse when it comes to upgrading my storage. The NVMe slots house my boot and gaming drives, and I’ve placed a couple of ...

We’ve all been hearing about the simplicity and low cost of iSCSI for years now — and how iSCSI would topple FC (Fibre Channel) as the storage networking technology of choice for shops moving from DAS ...

We tested iSCSI servers by installing and configuring them, putting them through a series of typical tasks, and running performance tests. Our test bed was based on a dedicated data network provided ...

Some of these features were supported by other storage media, but the hard disk was the first medium to support all of these features. Consequently, the hard disk helped make many advances possible in ...