The tech titan is acquiring LeftHand for $360 million to help round out its storage and virtualization portfolio, and target midsize companies and corporate branch offices. Jon Skillings is an ...

Storage area network (SAN) technology has been around since the late 1990s, but historically it was priced far out of the range of small IT departments. Now this option for making more-efficient use ...

In the world of digital news creation, speed is necessary, but reliability and format flexibility are even more crucial. Content producers, looking to install industry-standard platforms that can ...

Karen Schwartz is a freelance technology writer based in the Washington D.C. area. Imagine the effect on a university's network when thousands of students rush to register online for classes as soon ...

Similar to the way in which a storage-area network improves the management of structured data and block storage environments, a file-area network (FAN) helps improve the management of unstructured ...

A key standards body has given its blessing for a new technology that allows storage area networks to be built using existing Ethernet networking. Late Tuesday, the Internet Engineering Task Force ...