Tom Clark

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Virtual Storage Equals Real Confusion

While doing research for a current book project on storage virtualization, I found it useful to keep a large...

iSCSI, FCIP, iFCP … and iFUD?

In the early days of IP storage protocol development (all of three years ago), vested vendor interests spawned a...

Dumb and Dumber Switches?

In a recent trade press article, Jacob Farmer of Cambridge Computer Systems defiantly declared his opposition to the industry...

Super-Sizing Data Center SANs

Nearly all large enterprises have implemented shared storage based on Fibre Channel SAN technology. Typically, these installations began...

SANs Seek Adoption by SMBs

The high cost of SAN-attached storage, switches, and HBAs has been a barrier to entry for many medium and...

SANs Go International

The initial adoption of SAN technology was promoted by Compaq, Sun, and other vendors in the form of small...

Storage Reality Check – Open Systems Standardization

The evolution of open systems SAN technology is constantly shaped by diverse market contradictions. Customers, for example, often...

Going the Distance for Disaster Recovery

As a subset of more comprehensive business continuance strategies, disaster recovery (DR) focuses on data integrity and availability when...

A New Standard for Fabric Intelligence

While the storage industry continues to debate the issue of where advanced storage services should reside, vendors of fabric...