Once, long ago, in a galaxy not so far away, storage interfaces were pretty much proprietary things. Eventually the world split into storage devices dedicated to mainframes and storage devices devoted ...

When I first learned that the latest and greatest in nework attached storage (NAS) was using a TCP/IP implimentation of SCSI I heard alarm bells going off. Back up and recovery is a bandwidth ...

I've written a lot about iSCSI in thesestorage columns, and I believe it to have a very bright future, especiallywith 10-Gb Ethernet on the way and the significant difference in acquisitioncosts ...

When SCSI first appeared on computer systems in the mid-1980s, it was precisely what its name indicated. SCSI – for those of you with an interest in etymology but who lack a sense of history – stood ...

An emerging storage protocol, supported by industry heavyweights like IBM, Cisco Systems, and EMC promises to make SANs (storage area networks) available to small and medium-size businesses, and, in ...

Depending on whom you ask, the iSCSI protocol, expected to be finalized in the next six months, either will play a significant role in the future of storage networking or will become just another ...

As we all know previous best practices have always been to separate iscsi/vfms traffic from network/management traffic to guarantee performance. This is what we do currently, and to some extent, my ...

As the name might suggest. What's the performance difference between iSCSI and a network drive in Windows. Our accounting package is horrendously slow because every time one client requests a piece of ...

Although less than a decade old, iSCSI storage is already the prevailing choice for small and medium-sized businesses, as well as large companies looking to milk their existing Fibre Channel storage ...