Another great tutorial by Stephen Bigelow is appearing this week in lots of TechTarget publications. It focuses on switch upgrade best practices, and again quotes that Foskett guy. He’s so smart…
Fibre Channel
IBM Warms to the Compact Storage Market
With yesterday’s release of both an iSCSI version of it’s entry-level DS3300 and a complete, Microsoft Simple SAN-certified DS3400 solution, IBM is bringing the love to the … umm … well … compact (?) end of the storage market. See, we can’t call it “low-end” because these devices are decidedly not “low-end” in their functionality. […]
Emulex and QLogic Learn to Speak Klingon!
Well, not exactly Klingon, but both Host Bus Adapter powerhouses chose today to announce 8 Gb/s Fibre Channel HBAs. This would be somewhat more exciting if there was any device these high-speed adapters could speak to. But switches, arrays, and drives are still a ways off. So for now, Emulex and QLogic can only speak […]
Specialized Server/Enterprise Hard Drives
Continuing my overview of the specialized hard drive market, we move on to the world of enterprise hard disk drives. These are performance monsters, with nearly all falling above the 10,000 RPM line that defines “exotic” in the desktop space. They also have a wide variety of interfaces, including parallel and serial SCSI, Fibre Channel, […]
Toot toot 3: Quotes in Computer Weekly (UK)
Toot toot again… That iSCSI vs. Fibre Channel article is in Computer Weekly, a UK TechTarget publication…
