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 20091104 Wednesday November 04, 2009

Storage Networking: The Basics

Our favorite storage pundit Henry Newman has written a nice primer on Storage Networking:

"The storage stack is complex because it really has not changed much over the last 20 years and yet there have been huge changes in our industry. The move from Fibre Channel and other connectivity options to 10GbE is designed to reduce complexity and break the model of having networking administration separated from storage administration both from a hardware perspective and from a personnel perspective. If you are a network administrator, I would strongly recommend learning something about storage, and if you are a SAN administrator, I would strongly recommend learning something about networking." Full Story

Posted by Rich Brueckner [HPC Storage] ( November 04, 2009 05:00 AM ) Permalink | Comments [0]