The following is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of “Storage Area Network Fundamentals” (ISBN 158705065X ) published courtesy of Cisco Press. With the growing popularity of storage area networks (SANs), ...

While it’s a fact that most storage is still attached directly to the server that accesses it, is also true that storage continues to move at a steady pace onto the network. In all but the smallest IT ...

Recognizing the rapid emergence of IP storage methods, Fibre Channel stalwart Brocade Communications has finally announced plans to add support for both IP and Infiniband protocols to its new Fibre ...

HP this week is unveiling new hybrid hard drives that combine Fibre Channel and ATA technologies. Dubbed Fibre Attached Technology Adapted, or FATA, the new drives are aimed at dropping the cost of ...

Zoning is done at the Fibre Channel switch and segments ports on the switch into zones; devices can connect only to other devices within their own zone. LUN masking is done at the server and ...

Storage networking vendors announced 16Gb Fibre Channel adapters and switches as early as 2011. When the FCIA (Fibre Channel Industry Association) announced in late 2013 that the INCITS T11 standards ...

Aimed at the optical links existing in host bus adapters (HBAs), switches, and RAID modules, the TXN31015 and TXN31115 optical transceivers support the 4-Gbit/s Fibre Channel specification. The ...

The first requirement--sharing data between servers--is addressed by Network Attached Storage (NAS). A NAS device provides file access to clients that it connects to using file access protocols ...

Big Fiber completed the latest expansion of its San Francisco Bay Area dark fiber network. The 6,000-foot buildout sees the firm extend high-speed, low-latency connectivity to CoreSite’s SV1 data ...