Storage Area Networks

Storage Security Basics Mike Harwood
[July 8, 2005] Here, we examine the fundamental concepts for securing storage area networks.

How Much Data Backup Does A Dollar Get You?
[April 21, 2005] At PCFort, a dollar gets your customers in the door. The company has a low entry level price designed to appeal to ISPs and to ISPs' residential and SOHO customers.

Storage Notes: NovaStor
[December 17, 2003] ISP-Planet has learned in an exclusive that NovaStor will announce tomorrow an aggressive global marketing campaign aimed at obtaining thousands of ISP customers for its backup software, NovaNet-WEB.

Storage Notes: Every ISP Will Need A Tape Library
[April 18, 2003] We contacted a small ISP to learn how they were using Spectra Logic's Spectra 2K tape library. We expected to find the company using it to back up e-mail. We were wrong.

Storage Notes: Deployment at Easynet France
[February 13, 2003] Everybody's talking about storage networks but nobody's talking about specifics. We found one ISP and its equipment provider that were willing to talk turkey about the details of an ISP storage network.

iSCSI Becomes Official Storage Standard Clint Boulton
[February 13, 2003] The Internet Enginerring Task Force said iSCSI is now formally recognized as a standard by the data storage community.

Cisco Press: Storage Area Network Fundamentals
[December 27, 2002] If you're about to manage a Storage Area Network on a day-to-day basis, you'll want Cisco Press' Storage Area Network Fundamentals, a book that covers everything from hardware warning lights to the structure of the Internet.

IP Storage Book Review
[September 12, 2002] Four years ago saw the release of the first book describing in detail how to build a storage network. Now, Tom Clark, tackles IP storage networks in a new book.

Storage Basics: Comparing NAS and SAN
[August 8, 2002] We compare Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Networks (SAN), two technologies that are far from similar, despite the confusing similarity of their acronyms.

Storage Basics: Buying Your First NAS System
[July 25, 2002] We examine features and performance factors to consider when buying your first NAS system, focusing on the solutions that would be of interest to a small- and medium-sized ISP businesses.

Storage Basics
[July 11, 2002] The first in a series of articles that will, with the insights of key industry players, cut through the hype and jargon surrounding the storage sector to identify the technologies that ISPs can utilize.

Storage Notes: Brocade
[June 17, 2002] Seven years after it was founded, Brocade resides at the core of a maturing storage area network marketplace. Its dual goals are to educate customers and secure industry partnerships.

Storage Notes ISP-Planet Staff
[May 31, 2002] Crossroads introduces its new storage router, Exabyte has a new Fibre Channel tape drive, and five companies pick up much needed major venture capital.

Storage Notes
[May 17, 2002] Hitachi Data Systems takes its marketing strategy north, Transition Networks cuts prices to move excess inventory, vendors break through storage barriers, and more.

Storage Area Network Notes
[April 11, 2002] The buzz at several storage shows, a slew of new storage products hit the market, and fresh funding for storage firms adds up to optimism about the SAN sector.

Storage Area Network Notes
[March 28, 2002] Several new storage products hit the market, equipment vendors report big deals and promising alliances, and the storage sector's fertile funding feast continues.

Storage Area Network Notes
[March 7, 2002] Storability's Global Storage Manager provides a view of a worldwide network, Brocade's eight-port switch costs less than $8,000, and NetOctave will change storage security forever.

Storage Area Network Notes
[February 19, 2002] Sun Microsystems launches a wave of storage improvements, Maxtor promotes a new hard drive, Adaptec wins a Japanese client, and much funding news for SAN and NAS services.

Storage Area Network Notes
[February 1, 2002] Wire-speed iSCSI system rivals data transfer speeds of more costly Fibre Channel SANs. Also new products debut from Brocade, Sony, and others.

Storage Area Network Notes
[January 11, 2002] Adaptec is working on Ultra320 SCSI, Telson's point-to-multipoint plan is designed for Storage Service Providers (SSPs), and keep and eye on mergers and acquisitions during 2002.

2001

Storage Network Notes: Internet World Fall Edition
[December 21, 2001] Texas Memory Systems can add a RAM disk to your SAN, StoreAge takes the middleware outside the data path, storage remains a popular VC investment, and much more news.

Storage Area Network Notes
[December 7, 2001] Hewlett Packard details its case for server blades while dissing the competition, Auspex represents its case for NAS and SAN technologies, and Compaq claims the lead in the world storage market.

Storage Area Network Notes Featuring A NAS By Dell
[November 16, 2001] Dell unleashed a network storage device at a price that might surprise you—but other features might surprise you more.

Storage Area Network Notes: Featuring Pihana Pacific
[November 2, 2001] Out of paradise comes positive proof that storage-in-practice is alive and well. Pihana Pacific adds its own brand of storage service offerings to its carrier class data centers—plus more SAN news.

SAN Notes: Featuring The Golden Spike
[September 25, 2001] Nine companies gather up their gear to prove that large and small enterprises can build true storage networks with off-the-shelf equipment. Only the most distinguished earn the "Golden Spike."

Storage Area Network Notes
[July 27, 2001] Avaya debuts power-over-Ethernet products, Dell discounts the lot, Sprint auctions surplus gear, IBM's shark smells blood, and companies partner to produce SAN bundled solutions, plus more.

Storage Area Network Notes
[July 13, 2001] Tantia Tech hopes that its proprietary file transfer program, said to be 25 times faster than FTP, supplants the old-standby protocol in LAN-less apps. Plus CA World makes its own news and investors throw cash at SAN the sector.

Storage Area Network Notes
[June 8, 2001] The SAN landscape is shifting as equipment makers push for increased interoperability among with peers' gear. Meet the world's fastest RAID controller, not to be confused with the world's smallest RAID controller.

Storage Area Network Notes
[May 11, 2001] New Transmeta gear hits the market as supplied by RLX Technologies, new optical cable promises to double distance delivery and VCs invest in storage, plus much more from NetWorld+Interop.

Storage Area Network Notes
[May 1, 2001] After Cisco's big inventory write off, a slew of other companies play follow the market-leader with price cuts, some even auctioning off gear on eBay. Meanwhile, new routers and switches hit the market, as does Gateway.

Storage Area Network Notes
[April 13, 2001] Storage Networking World wrapped up this week in Desert Springs, California and left the arrid area awash with a stream of new storage systems, software, and strategies.

Storage Area Network Notes
[March 30, 2001] As SANs become more mainstream, equipment makers have unleashed a barrage of new products—from cutting edge high-tech gear to conventional network building blocks.