For a long time now expanding storage meant buying more servers and disks. This has proved to be a costly method for increasing storage, and is often an inefficient way of doing things. We are now ...

Hardware maker Brocade claims to have invented the first IP storage switch for data centers. The idea is to rationalize the impact of the masses of data created by modern IP applications such as cloud ...

But Fibre Channel's shortcomings, including its expense and lack of interoperability, have opened the door for companies such as Cisco Systems, FalconStor, IBM, Nishan Systems and SANValley Systems to ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Since the early 2000s, the storage industry has been at pains to develop an alternative to Fibre Channel for storage networks based on Ethernet and IP, which became known as "IP storage." Well known ...

Generically, IP storage involves any storage functionality that is leveraging TCP/IP as a network transport -- using ubiquitous TCP/IP networks running on Ethernet or InfiniBand to perform storage ...