Tom Clark is a principal engineer in technical marketing at Brocade. He is author of Designing Storage Area Networks: A Practical Reference for Implementing Fibre Channel and IP SANs, 2d ed. (Addison-Wesley).
Although the steady penetration of Storage Area Networks (SANs) into the market continues, it has so far been limited largely to top-tier companies and institutions. By generous estimates, less than 20 percent of the...
The future of Internet SCSI (iSCSI) has been the subject of rampant speculation in the storage industry for the past 2 years. Although iSCSI represents the ultimate convergence of Storage Area Networks (SANs) with...
The future of Internet SCSI (iSCSI) has been the subject of rampant speculation in the storage industry for the past 2 years. Although iSCSI represents the ultimate convergence of Storage Area Networks (SANs) with...
Combining storage and networking technologies into an integral solution has revealed a number of inherent contradictions between the two. For example, traditional storage processes are based on a master-slave...
Today's unprecedented growth in data forces systems administrators to find new ways to manage storage capacity and use. Storage Area Networks (SANs) have provided some relief to the data explosion by enabling more...
In a typical neighborhood, most essential services (e.g., power and phone lines, water pipes, gas and sewer lines) are hidden underground and out of sight. This collective plumbing provides the support infrastructure...
The emergence of open systems has had a profound impact on the development of data-communications technologies. For the past 20 years, open systems have successfully undermined the monolithic, single-vendor dominance...
Storage virtualization gained significant attention during 2001, as both new and well-established vendors attempted to market their virtualization offerings as elixirs for all sorts of storage-related ills...
