Storage area network (SAN) technology has been around since the late 1990s, but historically it was priced far out of the range of small IT departments. Now this option for making more-efficient use ...

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Effectively using network storage technologies is a crucial part of any data storage management strategy. Simply relying on hard drives, JBODs or other types of local storage just isn't enough to ...

We look at block vs file storage for contemporary workloads, and find it’s largely a case of trade-offs between cost, complexity and the level of performance you can settle for.

Improvements in network-attached storage density and performance target unstructured data workloads. Here's how a NAS server works, how it is different from a SAN, and what IT buyers want in ...

Microsoft Azure Elastic SAN review: Why should you put your storage network in the cloud? Your email has been sent An issue that comes up repeatedly when building cloud-hosted virtual infrastructures ...

Prior to my days as an analyst I spent many years toiling away in corporate IT. The area within IT that I had the most interest and passion in was the network. It’s a little like when Spock said to ...

Who would have thought that storing bits could get so incredibly complicated? Storage has always contained a plethora of protocols, from Fibre Channel to iSCSI to SMB in all its variations, but the ...

5G will have a big impact on enterprise IT, and that includes storage. In fact, storage will be vital to upstream and downstream data in 5G deployments aimed at consumers or enterprise users. 5G holds ...

Jacquelyn Bengfort is a freelance writer based in Washington, DC. A social anthropologist by training, she writes on topics from education to the military, gender to fictional post-apocalyptic ...

In 1993, when Intel ushered in the modern computing age by releasing its Pentium chips, devices roared along at then-astounding speeds of around 60 MHz. Today's mainstream CPUs reach speeds of around ...