The storage industry hits a speed bump, its first since 2009.
Tags : Flash, enterprise storage, SAN, NAS, external drives
As appliances take over storage, enterprises don't need as many highly skilled storage administrators.
Tags : appliances, SAN, NAS, Storage, administrator, filesystem
What are the factors that are causing SAN storage to fall from dominance, and what does the rise of appliances mean for the storage industry?
Tags : SAN, storage management, NAS, appliance, Storage Administrator, Storage
TeamQuest claims its solution helps monitor the performance and capacity of both SAN storage and related infrastructure.
Tags : cloud computing, SAN, Storage
What Infortrend lacks in name recognition it makes up for in product selection. Its ESVA and EonStor product families aim to meet the SAN and NAS needs of the midrange and SMB markets.
Tags : SAN, NAS, Buying Guide, Infortrend
These days, Cisco is about more than just networking. Its Unified Fabric strategy makes it possible to mix and match from the MDS and Nexus product families, harnessing the same command lines and GUI operations to perform SAN functions.
Tags : Cisco, SAN, Nexus, Switches, storage switch, unified fabric
Overland Storage unveils SnapServer DX, a new unified NAS and iSCSI SAN device that leverages RAID technology to eliminate the need to provision storage capacity.
Tags : SAN, NAS, RAID, iSCSI, Overland Storage, Unified Storage, Overland Snap Server
Fresh out of stealth mode, Nutanix is on a mission to help enterprises tear down the wall between storage and computing in their virtual data centers and in the process reduce costs and complexity.
Tags : virtualization, virtual storage, SAN, NAS, data center virtualization
On the surface, Fibre Channel over Ethernet seems a slam dunk. Reality, however, says otherwise. What will it take for the less-expensive and easy-to-use technology to win over CTOs?
Tags : SAN, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, FCoE, FCoE Storage
Dataram this week began shipping high availability (HA) versions of its XcelaSAN accelerators for Fibre Channel SANs.
Tags : SAN, Fibre Channel SAN
EMC announced 41 new products, and claimed records in storage performance in a wide variety of categories.
Tags : SAN, NAS, Unified Storage
EMC announced 41 new products, and claimed records in storage performance in a wide variety of categories.
Tags : SAN, NAS, Unified Storage
The key to managing midrange storage systems is finding a balance between capacity and utilization.
Tags : SAN, storage management, capacity optimization, Capacity Utilization
New software features and hardware upgrades create a grid of Compellent SAN arrays managed as a single system.
Tags : Compellent, storage virtualization, SAN, Storage Center, LiveVolume
The SnapSAN S1000 array supports multi-protocol connectivity and energy efficient drive technologies.
Tags : SAN, Overland Storage, SnapSAN, 8Gbps FC, !0GbE
The three-year-old joint venture between Huawei and Symantec is bringing its products to North America with a line of storage and networking hardware products for SMBs.
Tags : SAN, Symantec, NAS, Huawei Symantec, Oceanspace
The new Brocade Network Advisor unifies the management of "all things Brocade."
Tags : storage networking, SAN, Brocade, FCoE, EtherNet
A guide to understanding storage virtualization.
Tags : storage virtualization, SAN, NAS
Company claims better performance than Fibre Channel at 20 percent the cost.
Tags : SAN, NetApp, Coraid, ATA-over-Ethernet, AoE
iSCSI made SAN storage practical but now fiber channel vendors take a look at FCoE.
Tags : SAN, iSCSI, FCoE, Fiber channel, FCoE Storage
Virtual environments place a heavy load on centralized storage infrastructures and it all points back to your SAN infrastructure.
Tags : virtualization, SAN, SAN monitoring, Virtualized Networks
EUROstor will offer storage
networking solutions with BLADE's top-of-rack solution.
Tags : storage networking, SAN
One company details its transition to SAN from direct attached storage for its Microsoft Hyper-V server virtualization project.
Tags : storage networking, SAN, server virtualization
Vendors have been quick to offer cache solutions for direct attached storage (DAS), network attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN).
Tags : SSD, SAN, Solid-State Drives, NAS, DAS
The cost of SAN arrays, like the Drobo Elite, make storage area networks affordable for all but the smallest of IT shops.
Tags : data storage, SAN, thin provisioning
Based in London, but with global operations, the data center of SunGard Financial Services uses EMC Clariion and Celerra arrays in its SAN.
Tags : deduplication, SAN, backup
In a single quarter, NetApp leapt past Dell and HP and nearly caught IBM, according to IDC, while EMC remains all alone at the top.
Tags : EMC, SAN, NetApp, NAS, market share
GIS systems have relied almost exclusively on SAN and NAS, but those systems are hitting performance limitations.
Tags : storage networking, SAN, NAS, GIS, imaging
Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer reduces the mean time to diagnose IT infrastructure outages.
Tags : performance, SAN, Optimizer, LAN, storage device
The transition to 8 Gbps Fiber Channel hardware in storage-area networks (SANs) is well underway.
Tags : storage networking, SAN, fibre channel
SAN Monitor is a free tool designed to identifying performance bottlenecks with disk I/O and latency.
Tags : SAN, storage management, SAN Monitor, storage tool
The company has announced a series of high-capacity, energy-efficient iSCSI storage area network (SAN) arrays.
Tags : storage networking, SAN, iSCSI, Storage
The company's zNAS file server is integrated into Compellent's Storage Center SAN array.
Tags : SAN, NAS, ZFS, open-source, zNAS
Pillar Data Systems has added native asynchronous replication for both SAN and NAS data on the same Axiom platform.
Tags : data storage, storage networking, SAN, NAS, array
With Oracle's acquisition of Sun this becomes a much more interesting question for storage practitioners. We surveyed seventeen IT professionals to get their thinking and in this research note present an economic model to compare the alternative approaches.
Tags : data storage, storage networking, SAN, data protection, DAS
ATTO Xtend SAN allows Mac users to attach and load balance storage.
Tags : storage networking, SAN, iSCSI
OCZ Technology Group announced it will begin mass producing its PCI-Express (PCIe) Z-Drive R2 Solid State Drive (SSD) series.
Tags : SSD, SAN, solid state drive, storage system
Infinera ATN is a metro-optimized CWDM and DWDM platform.
Tags : SAN, Brocade, fibre channel, Switches, metro edge
Despite the potential expense the need for SAN services is growing – rapidly.
Tags : storage networking, storage network, SAN, Storage area network, RAID
Does the company's offering really live up to the marketing hype?
Tags : software, SAN, storage management, Storage
HP unveils new offerings for iSCSI and Fibre Channel storage networking environments.
Tags : data storage, storage networking, HP, SAN, storage switches
Overland Storage has announced its first iSCSI storage area network (SAN) appliance.
Tags : SAN, storage management, NAS, provisioning
Users report that SAN performance can double after defragging.
Tags : performance, storage networking, SAN, defragmentation, defrag
SAN vendors say fragmentation isn't a problem with their systems, but a few point fingers at Windows.
Tags : Windows, file systems, fragmentation, storage networking, SAN
Server virtualization is creating a new market for an old storage technology, as HP's latest products show.
Tags : virtualization, HP, SAN, server management, DAS
