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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April 10, 2018
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Apr'18
Broadcom preps for NVMe over Fibre Channel with Brocade gear
Broadcom ships its first Brocade FC switching products and updates SAN management for NVMe with the goal of making Fibre Channel the fabric of choice for NVMe storage.
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April 05, 2018
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Apr'18
IDC: Dell No. 1 in CI, HCI revenue
Dell won the trifecta in the latest IDC Quarterly Converged Tracker report. Dell Technologies-owned technology led market share across the board in converged and hyper-converged systems, according ...
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March 08, 2018
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Mar'18
Nexsan arrays 'ARM' national lab with redundant disk storage
Nexsan Unity disk arrays are based on a dual-controller NST platform. Argonne National Lab uses the storage for continuous operations in inhospitable environments.
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January 22, 2018
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Jan'18
Pure Storage FlashStack is recycler's renewable resource
Food waste recycler Valley Proteins chose Pure Storage's all-flash converged infrastructure to replace Dell EMC VNX-Cisco UCS for 24 TB of usable storage with Cohesity backup.
SAN technology and arrays Get Started
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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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storage area network (SAN)
A storage area network (SAN) is a dedicated high-speed network or subnetwork that interconnects and presents shared pools of storage devices to multiple servers. Continue Reading
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AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface)
Advanced Host Controller Interface, or AHCI, is a technical standard for an interface that enables software to communicate with Serial ATA (SATA) devices. Continue Reading
Evaluate SAN technology and arrays Vendors & Products
Weigh the pros and cons of technologies, products and projects you are considering.
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SAN purchase and deployment criteria by the numbers
Capacity and application needs drive businesses to deploy new storage area network systems, while criteria such as number of LUNs and multipathing are key to purchasing decisions. Continue Reading
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Excelero NVMesh 1.1
Startup's NVMesh software virtualizes nonvolatile memory express-based storage and lets applications access pooled storage resources at high speed and low latency. Continue Reading
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Infinidat InfiniBox 3.0
InfiniBox 3.0 stores data on disk, deploying a small amount of flash as an acceleration tier. Its caching algorithm ensures the hottest data is on the fastest storage media. Continue Reading
Manage SAN technology and arrays
Learn to apply best practices and optimize your operations.
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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
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The state of flash storage systems
Making flash storage performance even faster has little to do with the media itself and more to do with the storage infrastructure that surrounds it. Continue Reading
Problem Solve SAN technology and arrays Issues
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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
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NVM Express: Vendor-driven technology in search of a problem
NVMe improves the performance of flash storage, driving consumers to use it for performance problems even if it only leads to minimal gains in latency or throughput. Continue Reading