Sean Michael Kerner

Linux and iSCSI are two technologies that are gaining ground in the storage space. And thanks to a reborn effort, the two may be poised to gain together. In April, two of the leading open source iSCSI initiator projects, Open-iSCSI and Linux-iSCSI, merged, potentially heralding a new era for iSCSI on Linux. In another sign […]

The Department of Homeland Security’s US-CERT (Computer Emergency Readiness Team) has issued an alert stating that Veritas Backup Exec software is being actively exploited. The Technical Cyber Security Alert comes a week after the first public disclosure of the Veritas vulnerability. The active exploitation of Veritas Backup Exec software is the result of a buffer […]

Seventeen years ago this month, David Patterson, Garth Gibson and Randy Katz published their landmark research paper, A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID), which helped establish the modern RAID industry. Nearly two decades later, RAID technology remains as vibrant as ever, and in fact, its best days may be yet to come. […]

Serial ATA (SATA) is fast becoming a standard part of enterprise storage environments. Storage vendors are placing SATA drives in increasing numbers of enterprise storage systems for a variety of different uses. But how far SATA will ultimately penetrate the enterprise storage ecosystem is a question that is open for debate. Gartner Group has forecast […]

SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel or iSCSI, it all sits on an operating system. Sometimes that OS is UNIX, other times it’s Windows, and in a growing number of cases it’s now Linux as well. Since no one seems to track storage OS market data, we asked vendors and analysts for their take on where Linux […]

Fibre Channel drives have long been known to be a critical yet relatively expensive piece of hardware. A new “plug and play” serial ATA (SATA) hard drive adapter from Sierra Logic announced Monday aims to change that. The Sierra Logic BR-2401 is a plug and play connector for SATA hard drives that allows them to […]

After struggling for much of last year, QLogic and Emulex finished the fourth quarter with a bang, raising hopes that the rest of the storage sector may follow. The two dominate the market for Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) , suggesting that the storage area network (SAN) market may be rebounding after a rocky […]

After months of preparation and trepidation, Sarbanes-Oxley arrives Monday for U.S. publicly traded companies. The result has been a boon for some IT vendors and a headache for regulated companies, but storage vendors say there may be a silver lining for end users in the form of better business practices. Monday is the day that […]

Linux cluster vendor Linux Networx has released the Xilo scalable clustered storage system. Combining management software, scalable file systems and storage devices, Xilo pools capacity from multiple storage devices into a single resource to distribute large files. “It’s most like a NAS , or call it a RAID if you like, except that the file […]

For the past few years, vendors and industry pundits have been touting the benefits and inevitable dominance of iSCSI. Since becoming an official standard in February of 2003, the technology — which links data storage devices over an IP network — has yet to dominate the storage industry by any measure, and perhaps is just […]

In a move it says will expand customer choice, Sun announced it will open its storage clustering program to accommodate outside vendors. The company reports its Sun Cluster Open Storage Program will now offer support for non-Sun storage arrays, including third-party storage devices from storage heavies such as EMC , IBM , and Network Appliance […]