The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) yesterday approved a protocol that will allow network administrators to eventually take millions of small servers that have been locked into direct-attached ...

I wish I'd done it sooner ...

There has been much discussion and a good dose of confusion about the term ISCSI. This relatively new protocol for storage technology offers many compelling benefits, including solid performance and ...

Tom Clark, author of IP SANs: A Guide to iSCSI, iFCP and FCIP Protocols for Storage Area Networks (Addison Wesley, 2001), told Computerworld's Robert Mitchell how iSCSI contrasts with other storage ...

THE MARRIAGE OF networking and storage technologies is not only simplifying the way storage is managed, it also promises to revolutionize the way enterprise storage is used, allowing corporate data to ...

The iSCSI protocol has gained momentum as an alternative for Fibre Channel storage-area networks , and early adopters like it for the same reasons they like Ethernet – it’s inexpensive and easy to ...

Recent testing shows that combining SMB, NFS, and iSCSI protocols in NAS setups can optimize performance for different ...

We’ve all been hearing about the simplicity and low cost of iSCSI for years now — and how iSCSI would topple FC (Fibre Channel) as the storage networking technology of choice for shops moving from DAS ...

“Fibre Channel is dead.” That was the controversial conclusion of one participant in a heated debate at an industry conference back in 2000. Industry vendors were investigating a new protocol – ...

The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based storage vendor has been offering hardware, application software and storage protocol bundles to its channel partners since last year to give solution providers the ...