In my previous articles in this series, I shared some hardware options to help you build an inexpensive iSCSI target and went over your Windows software options for enabling this functionality. In ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. FalconStor Software Inc. has upgraded its software-based ...

The government’s storage story often focuses on the massive information stores at headquarters, but smaller offices also accumulate data holdings — and headaches. Storage-area networks (SANs) based on ...

When it comes to simplifying storage while still offering powerful administrative tools at a reasonable price, not many solutions can compete with FalconStor’s ISS (iSCSI Storage Server). Offering a ...

As simple as iSCSI is to get running, configuring it to perform optimally requires a solid knowledge of how it actually works Over the past two weeks, I’ve written about some of the commonly ...

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 ...

Our testing of iSCSI SAN servers show they all handle basic functions as advertised. But we had to dig deeper into other enterprise features offered — such as security, high availability, and ...

In the storage business, a popular metric for measuring management costs is to compute “T-byte/FTE”, which is how many TB a FTE can manage. While that may seem a bit over the top at first glance, ...

Those of you with Windows file servers running on vSphere, how do you provision the data volumes assuming you don't want to use VMFS? I'm struggling to find a significant reason either way to go with ...

We have an opportunity to buy some extremely fast block level storage for about 70% off from a major storage vendor. It's a demo unit they want to get rid of. We've had a desire for a few years to use ...

Previously, I wrote an article on some possible hardware options to help enable you to build a cheap (as in inexpensive, not shoddy) storage server with the ultimate goal of being able to run software ...