What’s the best way to store and manage data in a virtualized environment? For IT administrators and system architects, this question is more than theoretical—it’s a critical decision that impacts ...

Hossein Shahrokhi is adding 20 servers to his Fibre Channel storage-area network (SAN) at the University of Houston-Downtown. But Shahrokhi, executive director of IT, isn’t laying new fiber-optic ...

My advice? Get trained on iSCSI yesterday, and start learning about Serial ATA today. Earlier this month, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) officially made iSCSI a "proposed standard," which ...

Some types of organizations, such as professional services firms, are far more likely than others, such as healthcare organizations, to use iSCSI widely. Already, professional services firms Nemertes ...

Claude Lorenson, group product manager for storage at Microsoft, would not say when such a move—which the Redmond, Wash.-based company has been considering for a couple of years—would take ...

The price and performance of these two rivals may be closer than you think. Much depends on what -- and who -- is already in place Anyone who has considered crossing the bridge from DAS to a SAN has ...

ISCSI is on a roll and scheduled for mainstream adoption, analysts say. While it won’t replace Fibre Channel in customer’s storage-area networks (SAN), it will have an impact on the network, and its ...

As we write this, word is in that the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has officially approved the iSCSI specification as a “proposed standard.” And already the standard has its first big-name ...

Hi All,<BR><BR>I'm playing around with VMware server 1.04 on my OpenSUSE 10.3 box and since I manage all my storage via LVM I've been trying to find a way to pass an LVM block device to a ...

The draft standard for iSCSI storage networking isn’t final yet, but that hasn’t deterred early adopters like John Flynn from experimenting with IP storage-area networks (SAN) based on the ...