“It&'s like Fibre Channel when it first started,” said Michael Fanelli, western regional manager at SSI hubcity, a Metuchen, N.J., solution provider. “It languished a year, then it ...

The main points to consider when choosing between Internet SCSI (iSCSI) and Fibre Channel boil down to two things: cost and performance. "Typically, the trade-off we see people making is between the ...

But what can iSCSI do for you? How about letting you go to CompUSA, buy three USB floppy disk drives, hang them off a Linux server and configure them into a RAID array from a Windows 2000 Server over ...

There is a lot of debate about Fibre Channel over Ethernet and converged network adapters. A CNA is a 10-GbE network interface card that supports multiple data networking protocols, basically TCP/IP ...

While both technologies allow small businesses to centralize their storage, they do so differently. With NAS, data is stored in a file format for ease in file sharing over IP networks, while ...

An emerging storage protocol, supported by industry heavyweights like IBM Corp, Cisco Systems Inc., and EMC Corp., promises to make SANs (storage area networks) available to small- and medium-size ...

Hossein Shahrokhi is adding 20 servers to his Fibre Channel storage-area network (SAN) at the University of Houston-Downtown. But Shahrokhi, executive director of IT, isn’t laying new fiber-optic ...

When it arrived, iSCSI (Internet SCSI) sounded not only exciting but irresistibly logical. Everything else has been hopping onto an ever-faster Ethernet/IP bus, so storage traffic seems to be a ...

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 ...