Those NAS solutions were pre-configured boxes that included a server, storage and software and were optimized for simplicity of installation and operation. All customers had to do was take the ...

VMware has released a virtual Storage Area Network (Virtual SAN), which the company says will usher in a new era of policy-driven and virtual machine-centric storage provisioning. SANs are typically ...

Here at Miami, we have a lot of systems running to keep the campus afloat. With those systems comes data and files that need to be stored. As one can imagine, with a footprint as big as Miami's, that ...

The IP-based NSMs are based on Intel processors and ATA disk drives. Customers are also required to purchase LeftHand's sophisticated SAN/iQ software, which helps combine all storage resources into ...

Onaro’s SANscreen VMInsight software monitors, tracks and manages VM host hardware and logical hosted VM operating-system instances connected to enterprise-sized heterogeneous storage-area-network ...

Virtualisation is a cornerstone of today’s enterprise IT architecture, but virtual machines pose a number of performance issues, despite the benefits they bring in cost and efficiency. Storage is a ...

FRAMINGHAM, MASS. — The need for Internet storage has exploded over the past few years. Businesses are demanding ubiquitous network storage that supports multiple platforms — and they’re getting it, ...

VMware storage entails more than simply mapping a logical unit number (LUN) to a physical server. VMware’s vSphere enables system administrators to create multiple virtual servers on a single physical ...

If you’re thinking about shifting storage to the cloud or if expanding the local storage area network (SAN) makes better sense, knowing the impacts of both options is an important study in ...

Approach towards networked storage started in the 1980s with the introduction of Network Attached Storage devices and continued later in the 1990s when Fibre Channel (FC) emerged as an alternative ...

A network-attached storage (NAS) drive is a dedicated storage device that uses its own operating system and software to provide centralized storage and file sharing over a computer network. NAS prices ...

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