Today's organizations are demanding high-speed data protection for complex and resource-intensive data such as image, audio, and video files—as well as for large databases. In addition, the amount of ...

As expected, Apple today announced it has begun shipping Xsan, a high performance, enterprise class Storage Area Network (SAN) file system priced at $999 per client and per server. Xsan combines ...

Although numerous storage technologies were developed to address these challenges, the continued growth of Internet access and new, rich content-based Web applications have organizations turning to IP ...

Disk drives are the foundation of modern data storage, but operating systems cannot use physical storage directly. The platters, heads, tracks and sectors of a physical drive must be translated into a ...

Effectively using network storage technologies is a crucial part of any data storage management strategy. Simply relying on hard drives, JBODs or other types of local storage just isn't enough to ...

The acceptance of server and storage virtualization has enabled a paradigm shift in how data center infrastructure is purchased and deployed. End user companies are migrating from purchasing separate ...

Approach towards networked storage started in the 1980s with the introduction of Network Attached Storage devices and continued later in the 1990s when Fibre Channel (FC) emerged as an alternative ...

Enterprises have long struggled with the storage conundrum of high capacity vs. high performance. Hard disk and solid state drives (SSDs) each offer advantages the other cannot match. Hard drives are ...

When is a server not a server? When it’s a Storage Server. Ask people what a storage server is, and you can expect to hear a variety of answers. Some will say it is a regular server with added ...

LAS VEGAS -- April 27, 2004 -- Apple has now introduced Xsan, a high-performance, enterprise-class Storage Area Network (SAN) file system priced at $999 per system. "Apple's pro video and IT customers ...

CUPERTINO, California—January 4, 2005—Apple® today announced it has begun shipping Xsan™, a high performance, enterprise class Storage Area Network (SAN) file system priced at the industry’s most ...