Stories about: Storage Networks

Intel later this year will help server network interfaces take advantage of the major recent advances in data centers: multiprocessor systems, multicore processors and virtualization.

The president of virtualization software leader VMware Wednesday questioned the strategy of rivals that are integrating virtualization functionality into their operating systems.

Tens of thousands of users are deploying open-source storage software in an effort to avoid pricey proprietary products such as array clustering and disk eraser applications and to get some long-term protection through the availability of source code.

Gartner has identified instant messaging, wireless LAN, taxonomies, VoIP, software as a service, a real-time enterprise infrastructure, utility computing, grid computing, network security convergence and RFID as the top technologies for 2005.

As part of its transition to an open-source software model, Novell will scale back its investment in some proprietary technology that competes with open-source alternatives, a company executive said Monday.

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.

Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced it is shipping a storage device that connects remote servers to a storage area network through the use of the recently ratified iSCSI protocol.

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Wednesday approved a protocol that will allow network administrators to eventually take millions of small servers that have been locked into direct-attached storage systems and plug them into Ethernet storage networks for backup and management.

System administrators have a smorgasbord of storage management software to chose from in a worldwide market which IDC predicts will be worth $US13.5 billion in 2006.

Several new technologies which may replace Fibre Channel as the main way of providing connectivity to storage area network will begin to make their mark in 2003, according to Brad Stamas, chairman of the Storage Networking Industry Association.

Determined to establish itself as a premier storage provider for the enterprise, Sun Microsystems Inc. this week simplified its storage software offering and rolled out improved storage hardware sharpened by technology licensed from Vicom Systems.