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• When should I use a SAN vs. NAS or iSCSI?

  It's often a matter of block vs. file...  Continue Reading

• DWDM vs. SONET networks for connecting to the virtual world

  We live in a virtual world where most of us have network access in our homes -- the Internet -- which is a virtual network.  Continue Reading

• How does IP storage differ from iSCSI, NAS and Fibre Channel?

  Generically, IP storage involves any storage functionality that is leveraging TCP/IP as a network transport...  Continue Reading

• Download Advanced Storage Guide Chapter 4: NAS (PDF)

  You asked for it, so here it is -- a printable version of our Advanced Storage All-In-One Guide. Download Chapter 4: NAS in .pdf format now.  Continue Reading

• Download Advanced Storage Guide Chapter 1: Storage components (PDF)

  You asked for it, so here it is -- a printable version of our Advanced Storage All-In-One Guide. Download Chapter 1: Storage components in .pdf format now.  Continue Reading

• VAR selection requires careful evaluation

  Choosing a VAR is hardly a perfect science. There are many VARs to choose from -- each with their own unique portfolio of products and range of technical expertise. The trick is to do your homework and investigate potential VARs before making a ...  Continue Reading

• Tiered storage becoming tried and true

  Tiered storage matches the value of data with the performance (and expense) of storage. Ideally, tiered storage can save money, while easing the access demands to any single storage tier. While tiered storage has clearly brought storage costs and ...  Continue Reading

• Data storage compliance's impact on storage product choices

  Data storage compliance is having a tremendous impact on the storage organization, as well as the management practices employed to retain, search, certify and destroy data. It's not just regulations like SOX or HIPAA that influence storage -- there ...  Continue Reading

• How do I establish recovery priority for my applications?

  If it's at the IT level, it comes from a data perspective. When you start moving up a little bit into the business side, people start looking at the applications because they don't really know where the data is. If we talk today about virtualization...  Continue Reading

• What is the difference between disk backup and data replication?

  The terms have been used interchangeably quite a bit lately because of the popularity of disk backup that is really gaining. The thing is, disk backup is technically another form of media that your backup application or solution can write to. Data ...  Continue Reading

• SATA technology advances and expands in the enterprise

  SATA drives don't match the performance of Fibre Channel but provide the low cost per gigabyte and high storage densities that are crucial for "nearline" storage tasks, such as performing backups and archiving. This article introduces SATA ...  Continue Reading

• RAID technology adds reliability and overcomes concerns

  RAID's evolution of storage servers and arrays is quietly influenced by the continuing advancement of hard disks and disk controlling hardware. Storage administrators must understand the changes that are taking place, and position their ...  Continue Reading

• RAID technology adds reliability and overcomes concerns, page 2

  Today, the growing prominence of slower, high-capacity SATA drives are raising serious concerns about storage reliability, and dual-parity techniques like RAID-6 are emerging to combat the specter of multiple simultaneous drive failures. Larger ...  Continue Reading

• Switch-level storage virtualization

  Virtualization allows administrators to gather, organize, allocate and manage storage hardware without regard for the applications or servers that use it. When properly implemented, storage virtualization eliminates forgotten or partially -used ...  Continue Reading

• SAN School: Lesson 3

  Join Christopher Poelker, co-author, Storage Area Networks for Dummies, for a lesson on what makes a SAN go. This lesson explores Fibre Channel protocols, World Wide Names and how SAN fabric addressing works.  Continue Reading

• SAN School: Lesson 1

  Do you need a SAN? Lesson #1 explores what a SAN is, the basic benefits of a SAN and which applications are best suited for a SAN.  Continue Reading

• Dual-port SATA for higher iSCSI reliability

  iSCSI SANS are less reliable than FC SANS, but implementing one with an FC-like architecture and levels of redundancy removes most of the reliability concerns about iSCSI.  Continue Reading

• Backup school: Lesson one

  Are you new to storage and backup? Lesson one of SearchStorage.com's "Backup School" explains the fundamentals of backup, the components of a backup and what kinds of backups are out there. Professor Dorian Cougias also explains full backups, ...  Continue Reading