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 ...

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 ...

I wish I'd done it sooner ...

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 ...

ISCSI is a standard protocol for running block-level SCSI commands over an IP network. Storage managers can use iSCSI as a low-cost way of consolidating and pooling storage into storage-area networks ...

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 ...

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 ...

As we all know previous best practices have always been to separate iscsi/vfms traffic from network/management traffic to guarantee performance. This is what we do currently, and to some extent, my ...

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 ...

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 ...

Granada Television installed Studio Network Solutions’ SANmp multi-platform, volume-sharing software in 10 of its editing suites at its Bristol, UK, location. There has been much discussion (and a ...