Last week another third-party vendor demonstrated that it was still supporting NetWare – that’s always good news! At last week’s Storage Networking World meeting in Orlando, Wasabi Systems launched ...

I'm playing around with iSCSI for backups. I've set up a successful Windows Backup over iSCSI to a Linux LIO target to provide networked backups to non-pro Windows clients on my LAN (Windows 7 Home ...

The Wasabi Storage Builder series of software is built on the NetBSD kernel and is flash copied onto a disk-on-module device that plugs into an IDE slot on a server motherboard. After the device is ...

You can use the software-based Microsoft iSCSI “Initiator” which allows you to connect to a “Target” LUN on the SAN that will access many spindles for performance and redundancy. Your server just sees ...

Over the past several years, storage-hungry applications such as e-commerce, data warehousing and online multimedia have placed enormous demands on computing infrastructures, not only from a network ...

When it arrived, iSCSI (Internet SCSI) sounded not only exciting but irresistibly logical. Everything else has been hopping onto an ever-faster Ethernet/IP bus, so storage traffic seems to be a ...

“It&'s like Fibre Channel when it first started,” said Michael Fanelli, western regional manager at SSI hubcity, a Metuchen, N.J., solution provider. “It languished a year, then it ...

Anyone who has considered crossing the bridge from DAS to a SAN has faced a fundamental choice between two technologies: the established, but pricey FC (Fibre Channel) and the more affordable but ...