In the past 10 years, Ethernet-based local area networks (LANs) have progressed a great deal, particularly in their data throughput capabilities. Most data communications functions take place on ...

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 ...

IBM last week followed HP with the introduction of Fibre Channel storage-area network blades for its eServer BladeCenter servers. The company, however, trumped HP by introducing two versions of Fibre ...

Chinese telecom and fiber-optics companies have achieved a major milestone in next-gen communications, successfully demonstrating what is described as the world’s first field trial of a hollow-core ...

James Nardi oversees hundreds of terabytes of data. Sometimes, the disks that it all resides on get hammered more than 10,000 times a second. Sometimes, they get requests only once in a blue moon. “We ...

Ibiúna is a small town with 75,000 inhabitants, located 43 miles from the state capital of São Paulo, Brazil. Its economy relies primarily on agriculture, especially vegetables. By the end of 2020, ...