TODAY'S TOP STORIES:
STORAGE AREA NETWORKS (SANS)
Think you know your storage vendor? We sent 14 leading companies a survey designed to shake up the status quo and to see if an interconnect war really is brewing. The responses we got prompted us to offer this advice: Take cover!
iSCSI accounts for only two percent of the SAN market, but its low cost and ease of use are positioning it for growth. We examined four iSCSI modular SANs and found our Editor's Choice running circles around the competition.
The upcoming year will bring new technologies and options that extend the life of your SAN while 64-bit computing and blade servers will continue to evolve.
Two new Fibre Channel SAN switches are expected to remove the cost and complexity that have typically kept SANs out of these lower-end market segments.
Storage devices that are directly attached and dedicated to a specific server--and therefore easily secured--are rapidly giving way to shared networked storage topologies that introduce new security exposures.
A new variant of the Phatbot worm appears to be loose on the Internet, attacking SQL Server ports, the SANS Institute reported Monday.
Brocade Communications on Monday rolled out a new switch targeting enterprise storage area networks (SANs).
Big and fast enterprise storage is pretty much the exclusive turf of Fibre Channel SAN networks, and the FC platform isn't about to surrender ground without a fight.
Consolidating storage can mean zero downtime, lower costs and decreased staff.
The battle of the InfiniBand ports ratcheted up a notch this week, as Voltaire introduced a new 288-port switch to meet the growing needs of high-performance computing.
VoIP Security Alliance focuses on VoIP security risks; members include Avaya, Symantec, SANS Institute, and 3COM's TippingPoint, among others.
Hewlett-Packard debuts three new storage product lines aimed at building low-cost SANs.
A dramatic surge in zero-day attacks and exploits of Microsoft Office have been the two most important threat trends for 2006, the SANS Institute reports.
HP Hits Storage Comeback Trail
Storage Vendors Converge Around SANs, Backup
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