In the life of any network environment, it is not uncommon for hardware to be replaced as technology improves. The item that is most likely to be replaced, whether due to improved performance or ...

Let’s assume you like the idea of keeping your data on a storage-area network. After all, SANs offer increased performance and improved manageability, and data stored on a SAN can be made available to ...

Hossein Shahrokhi is adding 20 servers to his Fibre Channel storage-area network (SAN) at the University of Houston-Downtown. But Shahrokhi, executive director of IT, isn’t laying new fiber-optic ...

While it’s a fact that most storage is still attached directly to the server that accesses it, is also true that storage continues to move at a steady pace onto the network. In all but the smallest IT ...

HP this week is unveiling new hybrid hard drives that combine Fibre Channel and ATA technologies. Dubbed Fibre Attached Technology Adapted, or FATA, the new drives are aimed at dropping the cost of ...

The storage and IP networking vendor is adding two new blades to its DCX Backbone switch family. The first, the Brocade FX8-24, offers 12 8-Gbit Fibre Channel ports, 10 1-Gbit Ethernet ports and up to ...

Approach towards networked storage started in the 1980s with the introduction of Network Attached Storage devices and continued later in the 1990s when Fibre Channel (FC) emerged as an alternative ...

LONDON, March 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Storage Area Network Switches Market – Growth, Share, Opportunities & Competitive Analysis, 2025 – 2032" report has been added to the Credence Research Inc.