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University of Minnesota Selects Cisco Storage Area Network for Scalability, Reliability
White Papers The university selected Cisco MDS 9509 Multilayer directors to consolidate its widely dispersed storage resources onto a single, highly reliable, high-performance storage area network, or SAN. The goal of the university's upgrade project was to...
[June 6, 2006, 0:00]
Norwich Union Targets Improved Storage Data Management and Year-on-Year Savings With a Cisco Storage Area Network
White Papers Norwich Union, the UK's largest insurer, is deploying a Cisco Systems Storage Area Network (SAN) to improve storage management, increase data security and reliability and help reduce overall IT costs.
[November 17, 2007, 0:00]
Kindred Healthcare Increases IT Efficiency With Cisco-Based Storage Area Network
White Papers With the assistance of Cisco Professional Services, the Kindred storage team planned and configured a cost-effective and flexible design to eliminate the existing 26 non-modular switches and consolidate into two new SANs based on Cisco MDS 9509...
[June 6, 2006, 0:00]
8Gb Delivers Enhanced Storage Area Network (SAN) Data Security
White Papers The modern data center is faced with ever growing demands in the areas of virtualization; power consumption; Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS); security; and manageability. QLogic's 8Gb HBAs address the growing need for SAN...
[September 10, 2008, 0:00]
SANmelody Makes Music With Storage Area Networks
White Papers It can perform in IP storage networking and Fibre Channel (FC) SAN environments. SANmelody is software that one can run on a PC/server and it transforms that server and its disks into a 'Disk server' over a network.
[August 18, 2006, 1:00]
PGP launches network storage encryption product
News The product is platform-agnostic, and the company claims it works with all types of local and network storage devices, including Windows-based servers, network-attached storage (NAS), and storage area networks (SANs).
[June 6, 2006, 17:10]
Netgear buys into network-attached storage
News Infrant's offerings complement Netgear's current Storage Central offering, which is based on Zetera's micro SAN [storage area network] technology, and accelerates Netgear's participation in the expanding market for network-attached storage...
[May 3, 2007, 17:54]
Brocade will shed 10 percent of staff
News Storage Area Network (SAN) hardware maker Brocade has cut nine percent of its work force, the company said on Thursday, making it the latest tech company to wield the axe. Storage area network switch makers are seeing increasing consolidation amid...
[April 11, 2003, 9:28]
Storage stats suggest Cisco is making progress
News Cisco appears to be gaining ground in the storage area network market, but the industry should avoid reading too much into the figures for now, the author of a controversial report has told ZDNet UK. Uli Plechschmidt, Brocade's vice president for...
[March 22, 2007, 12:16]
Cisco-Based Storage Network Helps Cable Provider to Increase Customer Satisfaction and Operational Efficiency
White Papers BendBroadband, a privately owned, nationally recognized cable operator, has deployed a Storage Area Network (SAN) based on Cisco technology to improve customer service, reduce operating costs, and improve application performance.
[November 17, 2007, 0:00]
UK School Gains Flexibility and Resilience With Storage Network and Virtualized Servers
White Papers Paul's School wanted to implement a storage area network. Paul's IT team deployed Dell for its solution and implemented Dell PowerEdge servers running VMware virtualization technology and the dual Dell EMC CX3-10C Storage Area Network (SAN).
[June 25, 2008, 1:01]
Leeds cuts storage energy costs by 75 percent
News Leeds City Council has cut its storage energy costs per terabyte by three-quarters through installing new storage area network equipment. The city has installed four ST6540 storage area network (SAN) arrays from Sun, replacing SE6920s from the same...
[February 29, 2008, 15:24]
HP fills in the storage gaps
News Alongside its virtualisation product, Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday launched new JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) products and a network-attached storage device that that bridges between regular Ethernet networks and Fibre Channel storage area networks.
[March 6, 2002, 15:08]
Cisco and RSA to offer SAN encryption
News Cisco and RSA have teamed up to develop encryption technology for data-at-rest on tapes and other types of storage media, combined with key management within storage area network infrastructure. RSA and Cisco are working together to simplify the...
[May 24, 2007, 17:37]
SAN misconfiguration opens door to hack attack
News Rhonda Gass, vice president for storage systems development at Dell sees the technology as an opportunity to bring network-based storage to the mass market. IP-based storage area networks provide exciting opportunities but also present a security...
[May 2, 2002, 10:14]
Where do you put all your data?
News For larger companies, you might have already addressed this question through the implementation of a storage area network. There are three overall storage options that deserve consideration: direct-attached storage (DAS), network attached storage...
[December 16, 2004, 9:50]
SAN Fundamentals: How Fibre Channel SANs Are Built, Secured and Managed
White Papers In this paper, the term Storage Area Network (SAN) is used to describe a Fibre Channel network over which SCSI-FCP (SCSI over Fibre Channel) Protocols run. This paper discusses the core technologies that are used to build and secure Fibre Channel...
[January 8, 2008, 2:51]
Dell rolls out NAS for small business
News Dell on Monday introduced a new network-attached storage server targeted at small businesses and branch offices of big companies. NAS devices are dedicated storage systems that serve up files and data to computer users on a network.
[March 23, 2004, 7:35]
Iomega and CA team for backup
News NAS technology centres on a hard-disk storage device that sits on a local area network, and often is used by smaller companies or work groups within large organisations. That compares with a market share of 47 percent for storage area network (SAN...
[July 24, 2003, 10:13]
Fibre channel competitor wins approval
News While Fibre Channel is likely to remain the standard for large companies, Mackin said many small and midsized businesses have been reluctant to move to storage area networks because of the costs of setting up and maintaining a separate network.
[February 13, 2003, 13:11]
