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), ...

FRAMINGHAM, MASS. — The need for Internet storage has exploded over the past few years. Businesses are demanding ubiquitous network storage that supports multiple platforms — and they’re getting it, ...

The first requirement--sharing data between servers--is addressed by Network Attached Storage (NAS). A NAS device provides file access to clients that it connects to using file access protocols ...

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 ...

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 ...

Data is piling up, and storage keeps getting faster thanks to flash, so the networks that link it all together need to keep up, too. Both traditional Fibre Channel and more general-use protocols used ...

Not too long ago, storage and networking decisions were simple. There were fewer options, fewer vendors, and fewer technologies to choose from. These days there are more vendors, more networked ...

Storage vendors are playing off the buzzy grid computing term to draw attention to their tools for scaling NAS capacity. One analyst analyzes whether this latest storage concept has more than a catchy ...