What is a storage area network (SAN)? A SAN is a high-speed dedicated network that is not unlike a local area network (LAN). A SAN establishes direct connections between storage elements, clients, or ...

Network attached storage (NAS) systems, or NAS appliances, are servers configured with software designed specifically for storing and providing access to files over a local area network (LAN).

(Internet Protocol storage) Using the IP protocol to connect storage area networks (SANs) in remote locations. SANs can be extended across metropolitan area networks (MANs) and wide area networks ...

The back end connects to a RAID array via Fibre Channel or to a Fibre Channel switch, in which case the NAS gateway becomes a front end to a storage area network (SAN). Single RAID arrays can ...

Prices have plummeted because vendors are reacting to low demand. There are a lot of storage area networks but they are islands. The information still continues to double (but) storage is not ...

You'll need external storage when storing more data than your device will allow. This comes in the form of USB drives, ...

NetApp has upgraded its AFF A- and C-series flash storage arrays while also boosting capacity and performance in StorageGrid object storage and E-series storage area networks (SANs), mostly as a ...

VMware increased the virtual storage area network (vSAN) capacity in vSphere Foundation by 2.5x to 250 GiB per core, which the company says will offer customers a more powerful HCI (hyperconverged ...