Data General's Clariion division has announced a Fibre Channel-based storage product aimed at SMEs. Joanne Masingill, VP Clariion marketing at DG, told Silicon.com: "Clariion Fibre disk arrays are the Volvos of the storage world - they just keep on...
The iSCSI standard allows storage devices to be networked over existing computer networks. Meanwhile, NetApp plans to launch a software upgrade that will allow its existing products to connect using the just-approved iSCSI standard.
By 2006, Gartner projects, iSCSI will connect nearly 1.5 million servers to storage area networks (SANs) - more than rival technologies, such as the current leader, Fibre Channel. Microsoft said it will offer a free download in June that will...
Interestingly, users are looking at adopting iSCSI for SANs.iSCSI allows SANs to use IP networks instead of Fibre Channel, and will be present in 25 per cent of the polled organisations in a year's time as opposed to just four per cent now.
Microsoft on Monday released an update to its Windows operating system to add support for the emerging iSCSI storage-networking standard. As it had pledged it would, the software giant released driver software to provide iSCSI compatibility within...
Although the NAS-SAN crossover has begun, the trend will increase with the emergence of iSCSI, Cox said.iSCSI is an interface technology that allows SANs to be built using less-expensive Ethernet networks.