SAN technology and arrays
Find news and information on storage area network technologies and arrays, including Fibre Channel SANs, iSCSI storage, SAN backups and SAN switches. Learn the difference between SAN vs. NAS architecture, the latest in SAN design and news about SAN array systems as they are launched.
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SAN technology and arrays News
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October 02, 2018
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Oct'18
HPE StoreOnce backup adds capacity, protection capabilities
Hewlett Packard Enterprise spruces up StoreOnce secondary storage with federated management of up to 100 appliances. HPE also deepened the StoreOnce integration with Commvault.
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September 27, 2018
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Sep'18
Lenovo and Veeam integration teams storage with protection
Thanks to a new integration, Veeam and Lenovo customers can purchase Veeam's data management and protection with Lenovo's software-defined infrastructure or SAN products.
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September 13, 2018
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Sep'18
Dell EMC PowerVault ME4 launched for entry-level SAN
While the industry watches its midrange lines, Dell EMC pushes out a new array of entry-level, flashy PowerVault systems for smaller organizations and branch offices.
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July 10, 2018
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Jul'18
IBM all-flash diversifies with NVMe-based FlashSystem 9100
IBM FlashSystem 9100 scales to 32 PB of all-flash storage in a standard rack. IBM guarantees consistent latency of 350 microseconds and 100 million IOPS per four-way cluster.
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secondary storage
Secondary storage is storage for noncritical data that does not need to be frequently accessed. Continue Reading
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RAID 0 (disk striping)
RAID 0 (disk striping) is the process of dividing a body of data into blocks and spreading the data blocks across multiple storage devices, such as hard disks or solid-state drives (SSDs), in a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) group. Continue Reading
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NVMe over FC is happening, and it's time to prepare
The extent to which the recently published FC-NVMe standard lowers performance latencies in Fibre Channel SANs will be interesting to watch in the coming months. Continue Reading
Evaluate SAN technology and arrays Vendors & Products
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Why upgrading to a Gen 6 Fibre Channel network is a good idea
Upgrading to a next-gen Fibre Channel network provides the added performance needed to meet the demands of evolving technologies and workloads, along with other benefits. Continue Reading
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Storage networking technologies explained
Make sure you know the differences among network fabrics, such as Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand, before making decisions about your storage network infrastructure. Continue Reading
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Storage Spaces Direct requirements you need to know about
Microsoft's architecture uses commodity hardware to create highly available, software-defined storage. But success depends on following the vendor's rules and recommendations. Continue Reading
Manage SAN technology and arrays
Learn to apply best practices and optimize your operations.
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bad block
A bad block is an area of storage media that is no longer reliable for storing and retrieving data because it has been physically damaged or corrupted. Continue Reading
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The state of flash storage performance
All-flash arrays have virtually eliminated flash storage performance issues, for now. But applications and user expectations will eventually catch up. Innovations in flash technology -- such as nonvolatile memory express and storage-class memory (... Continue Reading
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A cure for secondary data storage services blues
Effective user-centric data storage management eases copy data management and object storage uptake while enabling secondary storage services to evolve. Continue Reading
Problem Solve SAN technology and arrays Issues
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What is a LUN and why do we need one?
Logical unit numbers are a logical abstraction between a physical disk device and applications. Learn more about LUN use cases and LUN security features. Continue Reading
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RAID levels and benefits explained
RAID can enable better storage performance and higher availability, and there are many different RAID types. Read about the different levels of RAID and where they work best. Continue Reading
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When buying more primary data storage, applications matter
Faster storage -- and more of it -- is important, but that wouldn't matter if new SANs didn't boost application performance and efficiency in the process. Continue Reading