A key standards body has given its blessing for a new technology that allows storage area networks to be built using existing Ethernet networking. Late Tuesday, the Internet Engineering Task Force ...

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Cisco has announced updates to its MDS 9000 line of storage networking products designed to improve security and speed up wide-area data traffic. The updates, to be made available at the end of July, ...

Nimbus Data Systems last week announced two iSCSI and network-attached storage appliances – the Breeze VH630 and the Breeze MH860 – for use in midsize enterprises. Both appliances connect to the ...

The HDMP-2689 is a miniature, 19- x 19-mm, four-port serializer/deserializer (serdes) designed specifically for Fibre Channel storage-area networking (SAN) equipment. The device consumes 1.7 watts and ...

Tech Data has been selected as the first U.S. IT products distributor to offer Cisco MDS 9000 Family storage area networking (SAN) solutions to Cisco Advanced Technology Program (ATP) Partners, the ...

Similar to the way in which a storage-area network improves the management of structured data and block storage environments, a file-area network (FAN) helps improve the management of unstructured ...

High-performance superscalar chip integrates PCI Express, PCI-X 2.0, and Gigabit Ethernet Offered as the first processor with three independent PCI Express interfaces and one PCI-X version 2.0 ...

The Supported Solutions Forum (SSF), an effort to address the nagging difficulties getting storage systems and storage networks to work together, has qualified its first collection of storage ...

After more than two years of silence, the Portsmouth, N.H., company formerly known as Malachite Technologies Inc. is finally coming out with a customer in tow. After more than two years of silence, ...

Excerpted from the book “Practical Storage Area Networking” by Daniel Pollack with permission from Addison-Wesley Professional.” After a SAN has been designed and physically integrated, a significant ...