A storage area network (SAN) or storage network is a computer network which provides access to consolidated, block-level data storage. SANs are primarily...
21 KB (2,640 words) - 17:51, 14 April 2025
Network-attached storage (NAS) is a file-level computer data storage server connected to a computer network providing data access to a heterogeneous group...
20 KB (2,509 words) - 21:39, 3 July 2025
VSAN (redirect from Virtual storage area network)
storage area network (virtual SAN, VSAN or vSAN) is a logical representation of a physical storage area network (SAN). A VSAN abstracts the storage-related...
7 KB (818 words) - 15:40, 19 June 2023
This is a list of Storage area network (SAN) management systems. A storage area network is a dedicated network that provides access to consolidated, block...
1 KB (78 words) - 05:09, 1 April 2025
Network-attached storage Storage area network This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Network storage. If an internal link led...
231 bytes (56 words) - 21:20, 20 March 2013
(DSL) provider. A storage area network (SAN) is a dedicated network that provides access to consolidated, block-level data storage. SANs are primarily...
101 KB (11,935 words) - 03:04, 22 July 2025
latency storage for each host. This is comparable in certain respects to direct attached storage (DAS) or a storage area network (SAN). Cloud storage is:...
30 KB (3,191 words) - 12:54, 15 July 2025
retronym to contrast with storage area network (SAN) and network-attached storage (NAS). A typical DAS system is made of a data storage device (for example...
3 KB (377 words) - 23:01, 10 March 2024
The Buffalo TeraStation network-attached storage series are network-attached storage (NAS) devices. The current lineup includes the LinkStation and TeraStation...
12 KB (947 words) - 03:18, 5 May 2025
hyperconverged infrastructure is that in HCI both the storage area network and the underlying storage abstractions[clarification needed] are implemented...
8 KB (565 words) - 02:40, 25 January 2025
IP network to operate in much the same way that a Fibre Channel storage area network does. Because iSNS is able to emulate Fibre Channel fabric services...
5 KB (634 words) - 21:47, 27 May 2025
Read-only memory (redirect from Read-only storage)
computer is switched off. IBM used capacitor read-only storage (CROS) and transformer read-only storage (TROS) to store microcode for the smaller System/360...
50 KB (5,727 words) - 18:18, 25 May 2025
Network Direct Attached Storage (NDAS) is a proprietary storage area network system, originally marketed by the company Ximeta, for connecting external...
5 KB (607 words) - 15:23, 13 March 2025
Data storage is the recording (storing) of information (data) in a storage medium. Handwriting, phonographic recording, magnetic tape, and optical discs...
10 KB (1,202 words) - 13:06, 4 June 2025
Clustered file system (redirect from Distributed file storage)
data across multiple storage nodes, usually for redundancy or performance. A shared-disk file system uses a storage area network (SAN) to allow multiple...
16 KB (1,744 words) - 14:41, 26 February 2025
NetApp (redirect from Network Appliance Corporation)
1990s, NetApp's storage systems initially offered NFS and SMB protocols based on standard local area networks (LANs), whereas block storage consolidation...
53 KB (5,456 words) - 07:07, 26 June 2025
SAN. Network-attached storage (NAS) is mass storage attached to a computer which another computer can access at file level over a local area network, a...
57 KB (6,541 words) - 13:12, 15 July 2025
Software-defined storage may be implemented via appliances over a traditional storage area network (SAN), or implemented as network-attached storage (NAS), or...
16 KB (1,839 words) - 22:17, 20 June 2025
shifted. Even block-storage is now seen as distinct servers (thus NAS), rather than the previous array of bare disks. Storage area network Wittig, Andreas;...
4 KB (426 words) - 03:04, 17 April 2024
Distributed data store (redirect from Distributed data storage)
than a distributed file system or a peer-to-peer network, Amazon's Dynamo and Microsoft Azure Storage. As the ability of arbitrary querying is not as important...
8 KB (668 words) - 22:40, 24 May 2025
ISCSI (category Network booting)
network. iSCSI facilitates data transfers over intranets and to manage storage over long distances. It can be used to transmit data over local area networks...
26 KB (3,240 words) - 21:24, 23 June 2025
Dell EMC Isilon (category Storage Area Network companies)
(currently PowerScale) is a scale out network-attached storage platform offered by Dell EMC for high-volume storage, backup and archiving of unstructured...
14 KB (1,355 words) - 02:51, 10 May 2025
Storage, founded in 2008, is a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. It specializes in producing hardware and software products for data storage,...
10 KB (1,015 words) - 16:06, 1 May 2025
VLAN (redirect from Virtual Local Area Network)
distinctive segments, for instance: Production Voice over IP Network management Storage area network (SAN) Guest Internet access Demilitarized zone (DMZ) A...
20 KB (2,720 words) - 07:23, 19 July 2025
EMC Corporation (category Storage Area Network companies)
the company expanded beyond memory to other computer data storage types and networked storage platforms. EMC began shipping its flagship product, the Symmetrix...
35 KB (2,223 words) - 11:20, 8 June 2025
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is an American trade association, incorporated in December 1997. It is a registered 501(c)(6) non-profit...
7 KB (415 words) - 11:59, 16 July 2025
's storage area network (SAN) or clustered file system for macOS. Xsan enables multiple Mac desktop and Xserve systems to access shared block storage over...
9 KB (832 words) - 09:03, 25 June 2025
adding servers). Storage area networks – disks or drives in a storage array which could be provisioned to one or many servers on the network. Capacity expansion...
8 KB (839 words) - 22:59, 27 May 2025
storage, a logical unit number (LUN) is a number used to identify a logical unit, which is a device addressed by the SCSI protocol or by storage area...
5 KB (741 words) - 17:27, 25 June 2025
adapter (HBA) with a network interface controller (NIC). In other words, it "converges" access to, respectively, a storage area network and a general-purpose...
6 KB (604 words) - 03:47, 16 August 2023