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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

By Dave Raffo 07 May 2020

Hard 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

By Dennis Martin 25 May 2010

One 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

By Manek Dubash 06 Sep 2011

ATA 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

By Garry Kranz 20 Feb 2019

All-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

By Robert Sheldon 12 Apr 2021

SMBs 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

By Yann Serra 13 Feb 2019

There 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

By Chris Evans 13 Feb 2019

NVMe 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

By Erin Sullivan 14 May 2018

The 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

By Christophe Bardy 29 Aug 2018

Piggy-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

By Garry Kranz 18 Nov 2020

Kioxia'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