The main points to consider when choosing between Internet SCSI (iSCSI) and Fibre Channel boil down to two things: cost and performance. "Typically, the trade-off we see people making is between the ...

“It&'s like Fibre Channel when it first started,” said Michael Fanelli, western regional manager at SSI hubcity, a Metuchen, N.J., solution provider. “It languished a year, then it ...

But what can iSCSI do for you? How about letting you go to CompUSA, buy three USB floppy disk drives, hang them off a Linux server and configure them into a RAID array from a Windows 2000 Server over ...

ISCSI is a standard protocol for running block-level SCSI commands over an IP network. Storage managers can use iSCSI as a low-cost way of consolidating and pooling storage into storage-area networks ...

When it arrived, iSCSI (Internet SCSI) sounded not only exciting but irresistibly logical. Everything else has been hopping onto an ever-faster Ethernet/IP bus, so storage traffic seems to be a ...

While both technologies allow small businesses to centralize their storage, they do so differently. With NAS, data is stored in a file format for ease in file sharing over IP networks, while ...

Hossein Shahrokhi is adding 20 servers to his Fibre Channel storage-area network (SAN) at the University of Houston-Downtown. But Shahrokhi, executive director of IT, isn’t laying new fiber-optic ...

As more and more products enter the market, iSCSI is becoming an increasingly attractive alternative to FC (Fibre Channel) SAN technology. Not only is iSCSI cheaper than Fibre Channel, but the ...

It sounds like a good idea. Technology that makes it possible to build less expensive, native IP-based storage networks and mixed Fibre Channel-to-IP storage-area networks. But in practice, network ...