“It&'s like Fibre Channel when it first started,” said Michael Fanelli, western regional manager at SSI hubcity, a Metuchen, N.J., solution provider. “It languished a year, then it ...

The main points to consider when choosing between Internet SCSI (iSCSI) and Fibre Channel boil down to two things: cost and performance. "Typically, the trade-off we see people making is between the ...

But what can iSCSI do for you? How about letting you go to CompUSA, buy three USB floppy disk drives, hang them off a Linux server and configure them into a RAID array from a Windows 2000 Server over ...

We’ve all been hearing about the simplicity and low cost of iSCSI for years now — and how iSCSI would topple FC (Fibre Channel) as the storage networking technology of choice for shops moving from DAS ...

Businesses have turned to SANs as a cost-effective way to centrally manage the rapid growth of information created by data-intensive applications. SANs can optimize storage resources, ensure ...

My organization is slowly migrating our Physical servers to virtual servers running ESXi. I currently have a single ESX server running 6 virtual machines. We are contemplating going to a SAN to store ...

How it's used: SCSI over IP is a mapping of the dominant language for storage input/output — SCSI — to the dominant network protocol — TCP/IP. Advocates foresee iSCSI becoming an enabler of ...

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 ...

I work at a university and we have recently gotten into podcasting. Currently we use an Apple Xserve to handle the workflows of producing podcasts and serve to the web. We quickly learned that our 2TB ...

As more and more products enter the market, Internet SCSI is becoming an increasingly attractive alternative to Fibre Channel storage-area network (SAN) technology. Not only is iSCSI cheaper than ...

Three storage vendors this week claimed to have cobbled together a SCSI over IP (iSCSI) storage network out of off-the-shelf hardware, beating by a year industry expectations about when the first ...

The weather and sudden power blackouts are taking their toll all over the States in these torrid summer weeks. Case in point: the July 26 post of fellow blogger and Hitachi Data Systems CTO Hu Yoshida ...