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DefinitionFibre Channel
Fibre Channel is a high-speed networking technology primarily used for transmitting data among data ...Read More
SMR, HAMR and other HDD technologies you can build on
07 May 2020Hard disk drives could make a comeback in 2020, as new technologies such as SMR, HAMR, MAMR and dual actuators provide more capacity and speed for secondary storage. Read More
The director switch: Basic SAN switch, plus scalability and high availability
25 May 2010One director-class switch can supplant multiple SAN switches and deliver scalability, high availability and a number of advanced features for Fibre Channel SANs. Read More
ATA over Ethernet offers SAN storage on a budget
06 Sep 2011ATA over Ethernet offers SAN storage on a budget, at 20% of the cost of Fibre Channel and half that of iSCSI SANs. But, does being a one-vendor protocol mean it’s a non-starter? Read More
Pure Storage all-flash gains ObjectEngine backup appliance
20 Feb 2019All-flash vendor Pure Storage provides ObjectEngine inline deduplication appliance to reduce data locally and shuttle it to S3-based object storage for analytics, DR and reuse. Read More
8 best practices for SAN deployment within SMBs
12 Apr 2021SMBs face a number of challenges when planning and performing a SAN implementation. Get out in front of an often intricate process with these best practices. Read More
Career choices for storage admins as technologies converge
13 Feb 2019There is collateral damage in datacentre convergence, and it is becoming increasingly difficult for storage administrators to stick with storage-centric skillsets. Two solutions exist Read More
NVMe startups’ different routes to flash performance gains
13 Feb 2019NVMe offers huge flash performance benefits, but no one is quite sure how to overcome the challenges that brings and startups are trying several different approaches Read More
Five NVMe-oF questions you've been dying to ask
14 May 2018The NVMe over Fabrics specification is growing in popularity, thanks to its ability to reduce latency and increase performance. But is it just a fad or here to stay? Read More
Toshiba drives add Marvell cards to give native NVMe-over-fabrics
29 Aug 2018Piggy-backed cards allow drive shelves that can connect to remote servers as if directly attached and at NVMe speeds, with box maker Aupera getting in on the JBOF act Read More
Kioxia flash storage sews NVMe fabric onto Kubernetes
18 Nov 2020Kioxia's KumoScale virtualizes NVMe block volumes for consumption by file and object storage. The Kioxia flash invokes native TCP/IP drivers to install an NVMe-oF layer. Read More