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 ...

Storage-area networks (SAN) are being adopted more frequently today, but uncertainty still exists among users about why to install them and the applications that can make the best use of them. SANs ...

(Internet Protocol storage) Using the IP protocol to connect storage area networks (SANs) in remote locations. SANs can be extended across metropolitan area networks (MANs) and wide area networks ...

What is a storage area network? What are the benefits and pitfalls of installation? How can a SAN fit into your organisation? These questions and more are answered in our Storage Area Network School ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Storage area networks (SANs) allow multiple processors to share a pool of common storage. It is a ...

Back in 1977 Dennis Fairclough had a good idea: build something that would allow multiple small computers to share a single disk drive and in 1979, after his investors forced him to hire Ray Noorda to ...