SANs provide high-speed access to distributed storage via Fibre Channel (FC) technology. However, critics have said Clariion's inability to go after the mainframe market but concentrate on mainly NT, will hand companies like EMC, Hitachi and IBM an...
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), the Fibre Channel Association and the FibreAlliance were all involved in the search for common ground. March's highlights included Intel's announcement of Network Attached Storage (NAS) offerings...
It uses a 2-gigabit Fibre Channel connection to send and receive data. So far, Dell has done the best with network-attached storage, which is less specialized, less expensive and fits better with the company's business model, Webster said.
HP's MAS1000, a network attached storage system, can store as much as 6 terabytes of data and connect to two or more servers using Fibre Channel. The Palo Alto, California-based computer maker will offer three HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Arrays.
EMC, IBM and less well-known storage specialists such as BlueArc are beginning to mix and match the best elements of network-attached storage (NAS) devices and storage area networks (SAN) to improve the efficiency and lower the cost of storing data.
StoreVault S500 is also designed to scale up to Fibre Channel without requiring a separate network storage system. The device supports both network attached storage and storage area networks that use internet small computer system interfaces.