Storage administrators have a number of possible options when looking to secure NAS and iSCSI IP-enabled storage devices, and deployment scenarios are a key factor in choosing the appropriate methods.

Ever wish you could boot servers directly from your IP network instead of having to call someone to do it manually? Cisco Systems answered that call with the release of “Network Boot” – a new feature ...

I've written a lot about iSCSI in thesestorage columns, and I believe it to have a very bright future, especiallywith 10-Gb Ethernet on the way and the significant difference in acquisitioncosts ...

Even though FibreChannel over Ethernet gets all the hype, iSCSI over Ethernet is just as capable of converging or unifying data center servers, storage and networking, proponents say. Even though ...

Storage Networking is a tricky animal. My brush with networked storage platforms started from the time we needed few hundred megabytes of shared storage for building a cluster to enable database and ...

ISCSI is on a roll and scheduled for mainstream adoption, analysts say. While it won’t replace Fibre Channel in customer’s storage-area networks (SAN), it will have an impact on the network, and its ...

iSCSI learning tip: It's a must to consider more than just cabling when designing an iSCSI-based storage network. Learn to look at the bigger picture when configuring or optimizing an iSCSI-based ...

With iSCSI making major inroads into the enterprise environment, more CIOs and storage administrators are considering this lower-cost technology to help facilitate a move to a centralized storage ...

I give up.. I have a physically isolated iSCSI LAN. So my servers have a NIC on the production LAN, configured with DNS, subnet, domain suffix etc. and they have a NIC (or NICs) on the iSCSI LAN with ...

Hossein Shahrokhi is adding 20 servers to his Fibre Channel storage-area network (SAN) at the University of Houston-Downtown. But Shahrokhi, executive director of IT, isn’t laying new fiber-optic ...

A key standards body has given its blessing for a new technology that allows storage area networks to be built using existing Ethernet networking. Late Tuesday, the Internet Engineering Task Force ...

Storage-area networks that use the Internet SCSI protocol are gaining acceptance with corporate IT as a supplement to — or a complete replacement for — Fibre Channel SANs. Products supporting the new ...