Does it matter at all? Dual Port technically means a single point of failure in the card, but seriously how often does an HBA die and the system itself is a redundancy for another host. If the host is ...

I'm planning out a server consolidation project for my organization over the next few weeks. We are a small to mid-size (but growing rapidly) organization and we are going to be consolidating about 20 ...

There are three ways of connecting a server to an iSCSI SAN. You can use a standard gigabit NIC with a software iSCSI initiator, or an iSCSI accelerator such as the Alacritech SES2002 adapter I used ...

Brocade Communications Systems Inc. announced it will be offering Brocade-branded 4 Gbps Fibre Channel, as well as iSCSI host bus adapters (HBA) in the next quarter, its first foray into the server ...

Brocade made a good move last week by announcing that it will offer Fibre Channel and iSCSI host bus adapters, along with its storage area networking Fibre Channel switches and software products. The ...

Although less than a decade old, iSCSI storage is already the prevailing choice for small and medium-sized businesses, as well as large companies looking to milk their existing Fibre Channel storage ...

With iSCSI making major inroads into the enterprise environment, more CIOs and storage administrators are considering this lower-cost technology to help facilitate a move to a centralized storage ...

We’ve all been hearing about the simplicity and low cost of iSCSI for years now — and how iSCSI would topple FC (Fibre Channel) as the storage networking technology of choice for shops moving from DAS ...

Anyone who has considered crossing the bridge from DAS to a SAN has faced a fundamental choice between two technologies: the established, but pricey FC (Fibre Channel) and the more affordable but ...

A new report by telecoms and networking industry analyst Dell'Oro Group predicts that Fibre Channel switch revenues will exceed US$2bn by 2008 and continually increase through to 2011. "More and more ...

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Many technologies originally intended for the enterprise end up trickling down into the consumer market at some point. Some of these technologies (ethernet or virtualization, for instance) are more ...