However, IP SANs are a much greater opportunity to Fibre Channel VARs than a threat, because they are not Fibre Channel SAN replacements, but complements. The corporations keep Fibre Channel SANs in ...

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 ...

Storage-area networks were once closed and relied predominantly on physical protection to ensure security. However, as SANs become more distributed and remotely accessible, security concerns are ...

The company this week also introduced new products aimed at cutting the cost of building SANs within medium-size businesses. To complement its OEM business, LSI Logic is developing a channel that ...

The 4G bit/sec Fibre Channel standard boosts the performance of storage-area networks by doubling speed while maintaining backward-compatibility with 1G and 2G bit/sec systems. In addition, 4G bit/sec ...

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A tool that gives visibility into how each storage devices’ usage levels is being accessed by every virtual machine in the network. Mysteries of the world, such as how the Monarch butterflies can find ...

Whether or not 2007 becomes known as the " Year of iSCSI," more and more users are making the transition between legacy Fibre Channel (FC) systems and iSCSI for production data. Two users, who ...

New 2G bit/sec. Fibre Channel storage products promise to double the speed and bandwidth of data transfers across storage-area networks (SAN). But analysts are split over just how useful the devices ...

PyX Technologies, a supplier of iSCSI protocol solutions, announced last week the availability of iSCSI storage management software featuring Error Recovery Level Two ...