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 ...

Dr.Casimer M. DeCusatis is a senior engineer for IBM Corporation,eServer Network Hardware Development Laboratory, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rensselaer ...

Storage area network (SAN) technology has been around since the late 1990s, but historically it was priced far out of the range of small IT departments. Now this option for making more-efficient use ...

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 ...

The company follows storage specialists and its major competitors into a comparatively new area: standalone storage systems that attach to ordinary computer networks. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

The acceptance of server and storage virtualization has enabled a paradigm shift in how data center infrastructure is purchased and deployed. End user companies are migrating from purchasing separate ...

Karen Schwartz is a freelance technology writer based in the Washington D.C. area. Imagine the effect on a university's network when thousands of students rush to register online for classes as soon ...

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 ...

Palo Alto, Calif.—Agilent Technologies Inc. announces industry-first test capabilities of its storage area network (SAN) tester that address the 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel standard, allowing storage network ...