SAN Tag Index

IBM's venerable storage portfolio includes tape, disk, SAN and NAS. Even more important than the hardware, however, is the intelligence Big Blue offers to easily and efficiently manage  enterprises' ever increasing storage needs.
Tags : NAS, SAN, IBM, Buying Guide, disk, tape

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 : NAS, Infortrend, Buying Guide, SAN

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, unified fabric, Switches, storage switch, Nexus

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 : NAS, RAID, SAN, Overland Snap Server, Overland Storage, Unified Storage, iSCSI

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, data center virtualization, SAN, NAS

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, FCoE Storage, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, FCoE

Dataram this week began shipping high availability (HA) versions of its XcelaSAN accelerators for Fibre Channel SANs.
Tags : Fibre Channel SAN, SAN

EMC announced 41 new products, and claimed records in storage performance in a wide variety of categories.
Tags : Unified Storage, SAN, NAS

EMC announced 41 new products, and claimed records in storage performance in a wide variety of categories.
Tags : SAN, Unified Storage, NAS

The key to managing midrange storage systems is finding a balance between capacity and utilization.
Tags : SAN, Capacity Utilization, capacity optimization, storage management

New software features and hardware upgrades create a grid of Compellent SAN arrays managed as a single system.
Tags : Compellent, storage virtualization, Storage Center, LiveVolume, SAN

The SnapSAN S1000 array supports multi-protocol connectivity and energy efficient drive technologies.
Tags : !0GbE, Overland Storage, 8Gbps FC, SnapSAN, SAN

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 : NAS, SAN, Oceanspace, Huawei Symantec, Symantec

The new Brocade Network Advisor unifies the management of "all things Brocade."
Tags : Brocade, storage networking, EtherNet, FCoE, SAN

A guide to understanding storage virtualization.
Tags : NAS, SAN, storage virtualization

Company claims better performance than Fibre Channel at 20 percent the cost.
Tags : Coraid, AoE, ATA-over-Ethernet, NetApp, SAN

iSCSI made SAN storage practical but now fiber channel vendors take a look at FCoE.
Tags : FCoE, FCoE Storage, Fiber channel, iSCSI, SAN

Virtual environments place a heavy load on centralized storage infrastructures and it all points back to your SAN infrastructure.
Tags : SAN monitoring, virtualization, Virtualized Networks, SAN

EUROstor will offer storage networking solutions with BLADE's top-of-rack solution.
Tags : SAN, storage networking

One company details its transition to SAN from direct attached storage for its Microsoft Hyper-V server virtualization project.
Tags : SAN, storage networking, 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, NAS, SAN, Solid-State Drives, 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 : SAN, deduplication, backup

The partnership has resulted in a new set of Brocade-HP SAN and server connectivity products.
Tags : Brocade, SAN, HP

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 : NAS, SAN, EMC, market share, NetApp

GIS systems have relied almost exclusively on SAN and NAS, but those systems are hitting performance limitations.
Tags : storage networking, NAS, SAN, imaging, GIS

Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer reduces the mean time to diagnose IT infrastructure outages.
Tags : SAN, storage device, LAN, Optimizer, performance

The company has announced its new EtherDrive Z-Series NAS appliances.
Tags : SAN, EtherNet, ZFS, NAS

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 : storage management, SAN, storage tool, SAN Monitor

The company has announced a series of high-capacity, energy-efficient iSCSI storage area network (SAN) arrays.
Tags : storage networking, SAN, Storage, iSCSI

The company's zNAS file server is integrated into Compellent's Storage Center SAN array.
Tags : ZFS, NAS, SAN, zNAS, open-source

Pillar Data Systems has added native asynchronous replication for both SAN and NAS data on the same Axiom platform.
Tags : storage networking, NAS, array, data storage, SAN

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, DAS, SAN, storage networking, data protection

ATTO Xtend SAN allows Mac users to attach and load balance storage.
Tags : SAN, storage networking, iSCSI

OCZ Technology Group announced it will begin mass producing its PCI-Express (PCIe) Z-Drive R2 Solid State Drive (SSD) series.
Tags : SAN, SSD, solid state drive, storage system

Infinera ATN is a metro-optimized CWDM and DWDM platform.
Tags : fibre channel, metro edge, SAN, Brocade, Switches

Despite the potential expense the need for SAN services is growing – rapidly.
Tags : RAID, Storage area network, SAN, storage network, storage networking

Customers can now connect a Eucalyptus cloud directly to a high-performance Storage Area Network.
Tags : data, SAN

D-Link passes VMware-specified testing to ensure xStack SAN Storage products make best use of VMware technology.
Tags : VMware, xStack, D-Link, Storage, SAN

Does the company's offering really live up to the marketing hype?
Tags : storage management, Storage, software, SAN

HP unveils new offerings for iSCSI and Fibre Channel storage networking environments.
Tags : data storage, SAN, storage switches, storage networking, HP

Overland Storage has announced its first iSCSI storage area network (SAN) appliance.
Tags : SAN, provisioning, NAS, storage management

Users report that SAN performance can double after defragging.
Tags : defrag, performance, defragmentation, storage networking, SAN

SAN vendors say fragmentation isn't a problem with their systems, but a few point fingers at Windows.
Tags : SAN, file systems, storage networking, Windows, fragmentation

Big Blue once again taps LSI for its midrange SANs. Can a NAS deal be far behind?
Tags : LSI, NAS, NetApp, SAN, IBM

Server virtualization is creating a new market for an old storage technology, as HP's latest products show.
Tags : server management, SAN, DAS, HP, virtualization