Results tagged "SAN"
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DIY Storage Part 2: Picking the Right SAN Software
April 04, 2013 04:02 PM
I’m building my own SAN as a pilot project at work. I looked at seven storage software packages, including commercial and open source products. Here’s how I decided which was right for me.DIY Storage: Why I Built My Own SAN
March 29, 2013 02:36 PM
I built my own SAN to meet some storage needs at my job. In a series of posts I’ll cover the reasons why, how I did it, and the hardware and software I used.Imation Acquires Nexsan; Steps Toward Full-Service Storage Provider
January 02, 2013 06:49 PM
Imation continues to broaden its product portfolio and strengthen its hand in SMB and SME data centers with the purchase of Nexsan.Coraid Aims to Address Cloud, Video and More with ZX-Series
August 03, 2012 04:09 PM
Coraid builds on its Ethernet-based SAN products with the recently released ZX-Series.PCIe Encroaching On SAN Space
April 11, 2012 01:00 PM
As enterprises struggle with the need to expand their network resources while working within budget constraints, Modular PCIe is being viewed as a low-cost alternative to expensive SAN infrastructure. But don’t rule out SAN completely yet, storage industry watchers say.Cloud Storage Rewriting SAN's Future
April 11, 2012 11:00 AM
Cloud storage solutions are all the rage and are dropping in price, increasing in performance and threatening SANs as the primary means of storing data in the enterprise.The Five Core Tenets of Scale-Out NAS
March 02, 2012 09:00 AM
Deploying a scalable NAS system takes more than just buying the right equipment; it takes a plan, and that plan has to have a solid foundation based on principles surrounding what a NAS should and should not do.SSD, Scale-Out Architecture To Grow
February 29, 2012 01:00 PM
As SSD capacity continues to increase and prices drop, use of SSD for enterprise Tier 1 applications is going to become more and more common. At the same time, enterprises are adopting scale-out architectures. It's an exciting time to be involved in enterprise storage.Consolidation, Scale-Out Architectures And Virtualization Drive 2012 Storage Trends
February 27, 2012 01:00 PM
Enterprise storage infrastructure still contains quite a bit of direct-attached storage (DAS), but SMEs are in the process of making the move to consolidated storage, a shift that has already taken place at the Fortune 500 level. Even as storage consolidation catches on in the enterprise, though, there is a trend towards building scale-out storage architectures.Starboard Seeks To Be The iPhone of SME Storage
February 13, 2012 11:00 AM
Starboard Storage Systems, a relatively new entrant into a very competitive SME storage market, believes its initial product, which delivers double the performance of legacy SAN/NAS products at half the cost, will help it stand above the crowd. The company says its AC72 (Application-Crafted Storage) system dramatically simplifies managing mixed workload environments that include unstructured, virtualized and structured data.Best of the Web
VXLAN termination on physical devices
VXLAN is an Experimental IETF draft of protocols to enable the creation of a large overlay, multi-tenant network.
ONF Deadly Serious About OpenFlow-Based SDNs
: OpenFlow is poised to reach over-hyped status, yet there are practical, useful reasons for keeping an eye on Openflow. The biggest cloud players are involved and driving the feature creation.
Practical Introduction to Applied OpenFlow
Get a primer on the Openflow protocol and what it can do for networking.
On Resilience of Spit-Architecture Networks
This research papers investigates the practical issues in split-architecture networks and the placement of the controllers, such as Openflow controllers, in the network.
