If you only have 6 machines do you need the huge budget of ESX and a SAN? A decent dual quad-core Xeon, 8-16GB of RAM, and enough SAS drives to get the space you need will likely be enough. You can ...

Hossein Shahrokhi is adding 20 servers to his Fibre Channel storage-area network (SAN) at the University of Houston-Downtown. But Shahrokhi, executive director of IT, isn’t laying new fiber-optic ...

I want you to consider that your LAN is dead. Not only that, but your server-based network is becoming dangerously outdated. Both are at the mercy of the future — storage area networks (SANs). To ...

ISCSI is a standard protocol for running block-level SCSI commands over an IP network. Storage managers can use iSCSI as a low-cost way of consolidating and pooling storage into storage-area networks ...