QNAP Showcases VMware Certified Affordable iSCSI/NAS Scale-up Storage at VMWorld 2013

VMworld 2013 US QNAP, Inc, a global network attached storage (NAS) company, announced the release of QTS SMB 4.0 Turbo NAS operating system, for its business-class Turbo NAS models, featuring advanced functions for SMB users. The QNAP NAS can now easily be expanded to 400TB or more with the newly released scale-up solution. The new… Continue reading QNAP Showcases VMware Certified Affordable iSCSI/NAS Scale-up Storage at VMWorld 2013

Broadcom Unlocks New Advanced Functionality for Windows Server 2012

Unlocks advanced virtualization, networking and storage features Increases server throughput performance up to 77 percent1 Reduces cost, complexity and deployment time through broad support for all current platforms Broadcom Corporation, a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, today announced support for advanced functionality in Windows Server 2012, enabling a powerful… Continue reading Broadcom Unlocks New Advanced Functionality for Windows Server 2012

EqualLogic iSCSI SAN Concepts for the Experienced Fibre Channel Storage Professional

As data storage has become central to any successful computer based solution, advanced technologies for connecting computing resources to data have matured over the last four decades. From early storage connection protocols that utilized parallel data transmission such as SCSI and ATA that connected storage devices directly to individual computing resources through today’s modern distributed… Continue reading EqualLogic iSCSI SAN Concepts for the Experienced Fibre Channel Storage Professional

How to enable iSCSI and Jumbo Frames on VMware ESX/ESXi

I am redoing my lab at home (more on that in coming weeks) and wanted to test out jumbo frames support in vmware esxi with my iSCSI NAS device. This article by vmware provides information related to setting up a NAS (Network Attached Storage) and an iSCSI environment with Jumbo Frames. Note: Jumbo Frames on… Continue reading How to enable iSCSI and Jumbo Frames on VMware ESX/ESXi

Pogo Storage Launches PogoStor SAN+NAS Integrated Cloud Storage Appliances

Pogo Storage, a leader in open source storage integration, today announced the launch of the PogoStor™ SAN+NAS managed appliances, a new line of integrated cloud storage solutions, in collaboration with OS NEXUS and LSI® Corporation. PogoStor™ SAN+NAS managed appliances are based on the OS NEXUS storage platform and LSI MegaRAID® technologies, and offer high performance… Continue reading Pogo Storage Launches PogoStor SAN+NAS Integrated Cloud Storage Appliances

Maximizing Virtual Machine Scalability with iSCSI Storage

Server virtualization is being deployed on an almost universal scale to reduce costs and optimize data center resources. To underscore this point, a recent survey* reported several key findings: Server virtualization is widely used—74% of respondents are currently using server virtualization and another 19% are planning deployments. The number of virtualized servers is relatively small… Continue reading Maximizing Virtual Machine Scalability with iSCSI Storage

Strong Growth Continues in the Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Market

Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues posted year-over-year growth of 12.2%, totaling just over $5.6 billion, in the second quarter of 2011 (2Q11), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker. For the quarter, the total disk storage systems market grew to just shy of $7.5 billion in revenues,… Continue reading Strong Growth Continues in the Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Market