October 10, 2018
Graphic Novel: A Few Good Storage Administrators
A graphic novel vignette about storage admins, inspired by “A Few Good Men.” A Satire.
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Tag Archives : iSCSI
October 10, 2018
December 1, 2016
Storage Basics: When to use SAN v. NAS
This is my answer to a question that came in via Quora: When should a administrator use a storage area network technology and when should he use a network area storage technology? “Network Area Storage” is not a commonly used term. The correct expansion of the NAS acronym is “Network Attached Storage,” which might make the the comparing/constrasting make a…
OpenStack and Storage, a Response
I respond to an excellent article by Stephen Foskett, who was responding to one of my one OpenStack articles.
FCoE vs. iSCSI: The Cagefight! – Flexibility
This is the second in a series of posts designed to address some of the questions I’ve posed with respect to FCoE vs. iSCSI, in an attempt to take a detached view towards the pros and cons of each technology as it relates to measuring up in the data center. In this post, we will examine the question of whether iSCSI…
FCoE vs. iSCSI: The Cagefight! – Performance
Pondering the performance differences between FCoE and iSCSI.
Re-Examining FCoE and iSCSI Pros and Cons
It should be obvious that I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about FCoE over the past 2 years, despite only blogging about it for a couple of months (hey, I’ve been busy!). But someone brought up something recently that makes me second-guess the role that FCoCEE will play in the marketplace in comparison to, say, iSCSI. In particular, with…
FCoE, iSCSI, and InfinBand – Oh My!
Over at Etherealmind, Greg Ferro wrote a couple of pieces on FCoE that beg to be responded to. Obviously Mr. Ferro understands a great deal about the storage world, but when it comes to FCoE there are some points that I must disagree with.