In our last entry we discussed selecting the right storage foundation and I advised that you may want to initially ignore what protocol to use. That said, part of building a storage foundation for ...

Who would have thought that storing bits could get so incredibly complicated? Storage has always contained a plethora of protocols, from Fibre Channel to iSCSI to SMB in all its variations, but the ...

Bus-and-Tag parallel channel architecture was once the primary storage interface used by IBM mainframes. As mainframes evolved, the ESCON architecture broadly replaced Bus-and-Tag. ESCON is now being ...

Network file system (NFS), server message block (SMB) and common internet file system (CIFS) are all file access storage protocols, used to access files on remote servers and storage servers (such as ...

Data-communications equipment doesn't live in a silo. It lives in a network or other system with other devices and it most communicate with them. In other words, devices on a network or other ...

From a data storage perspective, the definition of latency is the time it takes for a data packet to travel from the initiator within the primary server to the target device. Excessive latency can be ...