During a recent visit to QNAP here in Taiwan, one thing that popped up in conversation was why home users would need iSCSI. Admittedly my ignorance for iSCSI showed at this point - I'd never paid it ...

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 ...

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Client by client, iSCSI is claiming ground against fibre channel in the external storage wars. For Queensborough Community College in Bayside, NY, that day of reckoning came a week or so before ...

Studying for certification exams can be an adventure. Even more so when the certification exam is a hands-on, performance-based exam. The quandry most people I know fall into, is that to effectively ...

Over 13,000 iSCSI storage clusters are currently accessible via the internet after their respective owners forgot to enable authentication. This misconfiguration has the risk of causing serious harm ...

Debates continue to rage over whether or not the "Year of iSCSI" has officially arrived, but one thing is for certain, there are more iSCSI products, more iSCSI accessory devices and more approaches ...

A technology that promises to bridge the worlds of data storage and networking has passed a key point on its path to becoming a usable standard. The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) ...

What’s the best way to store and manage data in a virtualized environment? For IT administrators and system architects, this question is more than theoretical—it’s a critical decision that impacts ...

Storage networks allow disparate storage resources to be centralized and organized within the data center. The available storage can then be centrally managed and allocated to users or applications.

With the acquisition, HP is getting three very, very important things: 1. A family of iSCSI appliances. While HP already has iSCSI in its entry-level MSA line and midrange EVA line, LeftHand's line ...

QNAP provides two options for space allocation. The Target disk is first divided up according to the administrator's set requirement and each user LUN gets its own space; that user space can be either ...