In the life of any network environment, it is not uncommon for hardware to be replaced as technology improves. The item that is most likely to be replaced, whether due to improved performance or ...

Innovation is ultimately driven by need, and networked storage is no exception. The competitive business climate demands increasing data storage capabilities, including availability, recovery, ...

Network-attached storage is the most versatile way to store data, but that's just one of the many benefits of a NAS device. We've tested the top models: See which will work best for your home or small ...

Although numerous storage technologies were developed to address these challenges, the continued growth of Internet access and new, rich content-based Web applications have organizations turning to IP ...

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of “Storage Area Network Fundamentals” (ISBN 158705065X ) published courtesy of Cisco Press. With the growing popularity of storage area networks (SANs), ...

A business may start off with only five employees and quickly grow to 25, so it's just as important to think about your network as it is to think about data storage and management. As a company grows, ...

Storage area networks (SANs) must scale to accommodate the added demands of more users along with a proliferation of more sophisticated enterprise applications. In the Fibre Channel world, scaling ...

Shared storage hardware is commonplace in larger organizations, but smaller ones typically can't justify the expense. But shared storage is required for many core virtualization features, including ...

As file sizes and data sets grow into the terabyte and petabyte range, users are looking for a method for storing, accessing and sharing the files among different hosts. That’s where clustered and ...