A lot of suppliers claim to be “market leading” when it comes to software-defined storage (SDS). But to assess those claims, organisations need to understand the technology and what it can do for them ...

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 ...

What is a storage area network? What are the benefits and pitfalls of installation? How can a SAN fit into your organisation? These questions and more are answered in our Storage Area Network School ...

In 1993, when Intel ushered in the modern computing age by releasing its Pentium chips, devices roared along at then-astounding speeds of around 60 MHz. Today's mainstream CPUs reach speeds of around ...

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 ...