Features

Features

Storage Area Network (SAN)

• SAN storage devices: MSP finds new business in tech upgrade

  Evercom, a managed services provider, was able to both upgrade its storage and find a new business opportunity when it purchased new gear from Reduxio Systems.  Continue Reading

• How to sell storage into virtualized infrastructure environments

  Knowing today's best storage options and how they best match to your customers' virtualized infrastructure is critical when crafting storage offerings.  Continue Reading

• IPv6 addressing brings benefits, few problems to storage administrators

  IPv6 addressing brings benefits to storage networking in terms of scalability and performance, without big downsides for storage administrators.  Continue Reading

• Storage area network (SAN) cheat sheet

  Find our most popular tips and features on storage area network (SAN) technologies and services. Use these resources to guide customers toward the right storage area network choices.  Continue Reading

• Key considerations in developing a storage area network design

  The best storage area network design for your customers will take into consideration a number of critical issues: uptime needs, scalability, security and disaster recovery. Find out how each of these factors will influence storage area network ...  Continue Reading

• Fibre Channel and iSCSI: Dueling storage networking protocols

  You've probably heard the mantra that Fibre Channel SANs are used at big companies while iSCSI SANs are good for SMBs. But why? Drill down into the cost and performance differences between Fibre Channel and iSCSI so you can guide your customers ...  Continue Reading

• Storage architecture choices: SANs

  Storage area networks offer a number of benefits over DAS and NAS -- even for companies with only 100 employees. Find out why certain customers are better candidates than others and what the typical costs are.  Continue Reading

• What are some of the risks associated with iSCSI?

  There are two risks VARs need to make customers aware about when using iSCSI. Since the technology is so easy to deploy, it is also easy to loose track of all the details. Customers also need to be aware that iSCSI can hog bandwidth on a network.  Continue Reading

• What are the disadvantages of iSCSI?

  Deploying iSCSI in mission-critical situations isn't a risk-free proposition. Customers may have to cope with higher latency and performance issues in mixed networks after an iSCSI implementation.  Continue Reading

• What are some of the advantages of iSCSI over traditional Fibre Channel SANs?

  iSCSI SANs allow for much cheaper connectivity than a Fibre Channel SAN. The initial sticker shock Fibre Channel gives customers may turn them away, while iSCSI allows customers to build on their networking experience, negate the problem of distance...  Continue Reading

• Fibre Channel man-in-the-middle attacks

  A Fibre Channel man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack is the act of an untrusted third party intercepting communication between two trusted entities. Learn more about man-in-the-middle attacks in this excerpt from "Securing Storage: A Practical Guide to ...  Continue Reading

• Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) security

  Underestimating storage area network (SAN) and Fibre Channel security risks could lead your customers to data loss. This chapter excerpt from "Securing Storage: A Practical Guide to SAN and NAS Security" provides full descriptions of Fibre Channel ...  Continue Reading

• Storage area network (SAN) risks

  Storage area network (SAN) security risks manifest as easily infiltrated gaps in your customers' storage; learn where weaknesses lie in a SAN architecture as outlined in this book excerpt from "Securing Storage:A Practical Guide to SAN and NAS ...  Continue Reading

• Fibre Channel risks

  Fibre Channel risks and security weaknesses leave this infrastructure open to attack. Learn about Fibre Channel vulnerabilities in this excerpt from "Securing Storage: A Practical Guide to SAN and NAS Security."  Continue Reading

• Fibre Channel address weaknesses

  Fibre Channel address weaknesses include manipulation of the 24-bit fabric address, which can cause significant damage and denial of service in a storage area network (SAN). Learn where the vulnerabilities lie in this excerpt from "Securing Storage:...  Continue Reading

• Fibre Channel clear-text communication

  Fibre Channel communication is clear-text, which allows for certain security threats.. Find out what to watch out for in this excerpt from "Securing Storage: A Practical Guide to SAN and NAS Security."  Continue Reading

• Fibre Channel man-in-the-middle attack assessment exercise

  Fibre Channel man-in-the-middle attacks come as a result of the architecture's communications weaknesses. Learn how to find these Fibre Channel vulnerabilities with the assessment tool in this excerpt from "Securing Storage: A Practical Guide to ...  Continue Reading

• Storage area network (SAN) hacking

  SAN hacking translates into network insecurity and lost or corrupted data. Get to know SAN threats as outlined in this excerpt from "Securing Storage: A Practical Guide to SAN and NAS Security."  Continue Reading

• Network latency effects on application performance

  Learn how to troubleshoot storage networking performance limitations caused by network latency in this excerpt from IP Storage Networking: Straight to the Core.  Continue Reading