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August 7, 2023
NVMe®/TCP Q&A
The
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March 28, 2022
SmartNICs to xPUs – Why is the Use of Accelerators Accelerating?
As applications continue to increase in complexity and users demand mo
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October 5, 2020
An FAQ on Data Reduction Fundamentals
There’s a fair amount of confusion when it comes to data reduction ter
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April 14, 2020
25 Questions (and Answers) on Ethernet-attached SSDs
The SNIA Networki
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March 20, 2020
Object Storage Questions: Asked and Answered
Last month, the S
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February 21, 2020
Will NVMe-oF™ Mean the End of iSCSI?
iSCSI is a
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February 12, 2020
Are Ethernet-attached SSDs Brilliant?
Several solid state disk (SSD) and networking vendors have demonstrate
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July 22, 2019
The Blurred Lines of Memory and Storage – A Q&A
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July 1, 2019
Storage Congestion on the Network Q&A
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June 25, 2019
Network Speeds Questions Answered
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May 15, 2019
Intro to Incast, Head of Line Blocking, and Congestion Management
For a long time, the architecture and best practices of storage networ
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April 26, 2019
The Impact of New Network Speeds on Storage
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April 9, 2019
Everything You Wanted to Know about Memory
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March 8, 2019
Scale-Out File Systems FAQ
On February 28th, the SNIA Networking Storage Forum (NSF) t
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February 20, 2019
What Are the Networking Requirements for HCI?
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January 25, 2019
Experts Answer Virtualization and Storage Networking Questions
The SNIA Networki
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January 18, 2019
The Ins and Outs of a Scale-Out File System Architecture
To meet the increasingly higher demand on both capacity and performanc
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December 7, 2018
Networking Questions for Ethernet Scale-Out Storage
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November 26, 2018
Virtualization and Storage Networking Best Practices from the Experts
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November 14, 2018
RDMA for Persistent Memory over Fabrics – FAQ
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October 9, 2018
Introducing the Networking Storage Forum
At SNIA, we are dedicated to staying on t
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October 2, 2018
Centralized vs. Distributed Storage FAQ
To date, thousands have watched our “Great Storage Debate” webcast ser
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September 19, 2018
RoCE vs. iWARP Q&A
In our RoCE vs
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September 4, 2018
We’re Debating Again: Centralized vs. Distributed Storage
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July 16, 2018
RoCE vs. iWARP – The Next “Great Storage Debate”
By now, we hope you’ve had a chance to watch one of the webcasts from
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July 8, 2018
A Q&A from the FCoE vs. iSCSI vs. iSER Debate
It’s become quite clear to those of us in the SNIA Ethernet Storage Fo
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June 4, 2018
Storage Controllers – Your Questions Answered
The term controller is used constantly, but often has very different m
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May 16, 2018
File, Block and Object Storage: Real-world Questions, Expert Answers
More than 1,200 people have already watched our
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May 1, 2018
FCoE vs. iSCSI vs. iSER: Get Ready for Another Great Storage Debate
As a follow up our first two hugely successful “Great Storage Debate”
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April 10, 2018
Benchmarking Workload Storage Performance – An Expert Q&A
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April 5, 2018
Storage Controllers – Are You Too Proud to Ask?
Are you a control freak?
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March 16, 2018
File vs. Block vs. Object Storage – Are Worlds Colliding?
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February 5, 2018
The Great Debates – Our Next Webcast Series
The SNIA ESF is announcing a new series of webcasts, following our hug
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January 3, 2018
Storage Performance Benchmarking: Workloads
The SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum is very pleased to announce that the h
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November 19, 2017
Why is Blockchain Storage Different?
The SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum (ESF), specifically ESF Vice Chair, Al
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October 26, 2017
A Q&A on Storage Management – These Folks Weren’t Too Proud to Ask!
The most recent installment of our SNIA ESF webcast series “
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October 26, 2017
A Q&A on Storage Management – These Folks Weren’t Too Proud to Ask!
The most recent installment of our SNIA ESF webcast series “
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October 26, 2017
A Q&A on Storage Management – These Folks Weren’t Too Proud to Ask!
The most recent installment of our SNIA ESF webcast series “
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October 26, 2017
A Q&A on Storage Management – These Folks Weren't Too Proud to Ask!
The most recent installment of our SNIA ESF webcast series "
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October 5, 2017
Storage for Transactional Systems: From Banking to Facebook
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August 17, 2017
Comparing iSCSI, iSER, and NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF): Ecosystem, Interoperability, Performance, and Use Cases
iSCSI is one of the most broadly supported storage protocols, but trad
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August 11, 2017
Too Proud to Ask Webcast Series Opens Pandora’s Box – Storage Management
Storage can be something of a “black box,” a monolithic entity that is
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July 18, 2017
Q&A – When Compute, Networking and Storage Intersect
In Part Vermillion of our SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum (ESF) “Everythin
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June 22, 2017
The Too Proud to Ask Train Makes Another Stop: Where Does My Data Go?
By now, we at the SNIA Storage Ethernet Storage Forum (ESF) hope you a
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May 23, 2017
An FAQ to Make Your Storage System Hum
In our most recent “Everything You Wanted To Know About Storage But We
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May 18, 2017
What if Programming and Networking Had a Storage Baby? Say What?
The colorful “Everything You Wanted To Know About Storage But Were Too
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April 24, 2017
SMB3 – These Questions Rock!
Earlier this month, the SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum hosted a live webc
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April 19, 2017
Buffers, Queues and Caches Explained
Finely tuning buffers, queues and caches can make your storage system
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April 17, 2017
Storage Expert Takes on Hyperconverged Questions
Last month, we were fortunate enough to have Greg Schulz, analyst and
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April 7, 2017
Q&A on All Things iSCSI
In the recent SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum iSCSI pod webcast, from our
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February 3, 2017
Would You Like Some Rosé with Your iSCSI?
Would you like some rosé with your iSCSI?
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February 3, 2017
Would You Like Some Rosé with Your iSCSI?
Would you like some rosé with your iSCSI?
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February 1, 2017
We’ve Been Thinking…What Does Hyperconverged Mean to Storage?
Here at the SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum (ESF), we’ve been discussin
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January 18, 2017
Buffers, Queues, and Caches, Oh My!
Buffers and Queues are part of every data center architecture, and
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January 12, 2017
Clearing Up Confusion on Common Storage Networking Terms
Do you ever feel a bit confused about common storage networking ter
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January 9, 2017
Questions on the 2017 Ethernet Roadmap for Networked Storage
Last month, experts from Dell EMC, Intel, Mellanox and Microsoft co
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November 18, 2016
Common Questions on Clustered File Systems
More than 350 people have already seen our SNIA Ethernet Storage Fo
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November 7, 2016
Storage Basics Q&A and No One’s Pride was Hurt
In the first of our “
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October 25, 2016
The Current State of Storage in the Container World
It seems like everyone is talking about containers these days, but
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October 11, 2016
The Everything You Want To Know About Storage Is On Again With Part Mauve – The Architecture Pod
The first installment of our “colorful” Webcast series, “
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October 7, 2016
Clustered File Systems: No Limits
Today’s storage world would appear to have been divided into three
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July 18, 2016
Everything You Wanted to Know about Storage, but were too Proud to Ask
Many times we know things without even realizing it, or remembering
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July 7, 2016
It’s Time for a Re-Introduction to Ethernet Networked Storage
Ethernet technology had been a proven standard for over 30 years an
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June 22, 2016
Principles of Networked Solid State Storage – Q&A
At this month’s SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum Webcast, “
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June 3, 2016
Q&A on Exactly How iSCSI has Evolved
Our recent SNIA ESF Webcast, “
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May 20, 2016
Architectural Principles for Networked Solid State Storage Access
There are many permutations of technologies, interconnects and appl
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May 4, 2016
Find out How iSCSI is Evolving
The next Ethernet Storage Forum Webcast.
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April 21, 2016
A Q&A on Storage Performance Benchmarking: Block Components
For the third time, our storage performance benchmarking experts, K
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April 12, 2016
Questions Aplenty on NVMe over Fabrics
Our live SNIA-ESF Webcast, “
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March 21, 2016
Ethernet RDMA Protocols Support for NVMe over Fabrics – Your Questions Answered
Our recent SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum Webcast on
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February 5, 2016
Next Live Webcast: NFS 101
Need a primer on NFS?
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January 22, 2016
Storage Performance Benchmarking Webcast Series Continues
Attendees cannot get enough of the SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum’s St
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January 6, 2016
How Ethernet RDMA Protocols iWARP and RoCE Support NVMe over Fabrics
NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) over Fabrics is of tremendous in
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December 16, 2015
Storage Performance Benchmarking Q&A – Take 2
Our recent Ethernet Storage Forum Webcast, “
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November 27, 2015
Life of a Storage Packet (Walk): Q&A
We got a lot of great questions at our recent Ethernet Storage Foru
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November 10, 2015
New Webcast: The Life of a Storage Packet (Walk)
Wonder how storage really
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October 20, 2015
New White Paper: An Updated Overview of NFSv4
Maybe you’ve asked yourself recently; “Hmm, I wonder what’s new in
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October 16, 2015
OpenStack Manila – A Q&A on Liberty and Mitaka
Our recent Webcast with OpenStack Manila OpenStack Manila Project T
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October 7, 2015
Storage Performance Benchmarking – The Sequel
We at the Ethernet Storage Forum heard you loud and clear.
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September 24, 2015
Congestion Control in New Storage Architectures Q&A
We had a great response to last week’s Webcast “
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August 12, 2015
Storage Performance Benchmarking Q&A
Our recent SNIA-ESF webcast, “
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August 5, 2015
New Webcast: Data Center Congestion Control
How do new architectures being deployed in today’ s data cente
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July 24, 2015
New Webcast: Storage Performance Benchmarking 101
There’s an art to making sense of storage performance benchmarks.
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July 17, 2015
Ethernet Roadmap for Networked Storage Q&A
Almost 200 people attended our joint Webcast with the Ethernet Alli
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July 5, 2015
The Life of a Storage Packet
Keeping storage as close to the application as possible and reasona
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June 10, 2015
Block Storage in OpenStack Q&A
The team at SNIA-ESF and I were very pleased with how many people a
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May 28, 2015
NFS 4.2 Q&A
We received several great questions at our
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May 26, 2015
New Webcast: Block Storage in the Open Source Cloud called OpenStack
On June 3rd at 10:00 a.m.
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May 5, 2015
Next Webcast: The 2015 Ethernet Roadmap for Networked Storage
The ESF is excited to announce our next live Webcast, “
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April 13, 2015
Next Webcast: What’s New in NFS 4.2
We’re excited to announce our next ESF Webcast on
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April 1, 2015
Ethernet Connected Drives Webcast Q&A
At our recent SNIA ESF Webcast “
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March 12, 2015
SNIA ESF Leadership Welcomes Chad Hintz
The ESF continues our busy schedule hosting informative Webcasts, w
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March 9, 2015
Benefits of RDMA in Accelerating Ethernet Storage Q&A
At our recent live Webcast “
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February 20, 2015
New Webcast: Visions For Ethernet Connected Drives
Mark your calendar for March 25th as SNIA-ESF, together
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January 30, 2015
New ESF Webcast: Benefits of RDMA in Accelerating Ethernet Storage Connectivity
We’re kicking off our 2015 ESF Webcasts on March 4th with what we b
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December 19, 2014
Real-World FCoE Best Practices Q&A
At our recent live Webcast “
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December 10, 2014
Take Our ESF Quick Poll
ESF has some exciting plans for 2015!
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December 9, 2014
Webcast Preview: End Users Share their FCoE Stories
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) has been growing in popularity y
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December 3, 2014
The Performance Impact of NVMe and NVMe over Fabrics – Q&A
More than 400 people have already seen our recent live ESF Webcast,
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November 11, 2014
A Beginner’s Guide to NVMe
When I first started in storage technology (it doesn’t seem
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November 3, 2014
Cloud File Services: SMB/CIFS and NFS…in the Cloud – Q&A
Cloud File Services: SMB/CIFS and NFS…in the Cloud – Q&
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September 18, 2014
New Webcast: Cloud File Services: SMB/CIFS and NFS…in the Cloud
Imagine evaporating your existing file server into the cloud with t
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September 4, 2014
Upcoming Plugfests at SDC
This year’s SNIA
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September 3, 2014
Expanding Your Data Center with FCoE – Q&A
At our recent live ESF Webcast, “
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August 25, 2014
What’s Happening with 25GbE
In July 2014, IEEE 802.3 voted to form a Study Group for 25Gb/s Eth
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August 4, 2014
Upcoming Webcast: Is FCoE the Answer to Data Center Agility?
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) has been growing in popularity y
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May 27, 2014
Ethernet Meets Enterprise Storage – Finally
Presumptuous, yes, because Ethernet has been a mainstay in enterpri
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April 9, 2014
The IETF, Consensus and NFSv4
The Internet Engineering Task Force
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March 31, 2014
Relentless Advance Of Ethernet – And Ethernet Storage Networking
As one Cisco colleague once said to me, “After the nuclear holocaus
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March 11, 2014
Use Cases for iSCSI and FCoE – Your Questions Answered
We had a tremendous response to our recent Webcast “
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January 28, 2014
2013 in Review and the Outlook for 2014 – A SNIA ESF Perspective
Technology continues to advance rapidly.
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January 7, 2014
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE): Hype vs. Reality
It’s been a bit of a bumpy ride for FCoE, which started out with mo
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September 26, 2013
Software Defined Networks for SANs?
Previously, I’ve blogged about the VN2VN (virtual node to virtual n
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August 12, 2013
Ethernet is the right fit for the Software Defined Data Center
“Software Defined” is a label being used to define advances in
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April 30, 2013
pNFS and Future NFSv4.2 Features
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April 18, 2013
10 Gigabit Ethernet – 2H12 Results and 2013 Outlook
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April 15, 2013
Resolving the Confusion around DCB (I Hope)
Storage traffic running over Ethernet-
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March 21, 2013
Red Hat adds commercial support for pNFS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux shipped their first commercially supported
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March 13, 2013
Take Our 10GBASE-T Quick Poll
I’ve gotten some interesting feedback on my recent 10GBASE-T blog,
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March 5, 2013
How DCB Makes iSCSI Better
A challenge with traditional iSCSI deployments is the non-determini
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February 26, 2013
VN2VN: “Ethernet Only” Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Is Coming
The completion of a specification for FCoE (T11 FC-BB-5, 2009) held
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February 19, 2013
The Advantages of NFSv4.1
In a previous blog post Why
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January 31, 2013
What Up with DCBX?
I guess this is a blog that could either be very short or very long
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January 14, 2013
Object Storage is a Big Deal (and Ethernet Matters)
A significant challenge in managing large amounts of data (or
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January 8, 2013
How is 10GBASE-T Being Adopted and Deployed?
For nearly a decade, the primary deployment of 10 Gigabit Ethernet
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December 20, 2012
Ethernet Storage Forum – 2012 Year in Review and What to Expect in 2013
As we come to a close of the year 2012, I want to share some of our
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December 18, 2012
Why NFSv4.1 and pNFS are Better than NFSv3 Could Ever Be
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December 12, 2012
pNFS Advances
Building an industry standard is a series of incremental steps – fr
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October 3, 2012
Flash Webcast Q&A
Our recent Webcast: Flash – Plan for the Disruption was very well r
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September 20, 2012
NFSv4.1 Webcast Q&A
Our recent Webcast: NFSv4.1 – Plan for a Smooth Migration was very
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September 12, 2012
Flash Webcast – Are You Ready for the Disruption?
There’s no doubt that flash is a game changer.
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August 24, 2012
NFSv4.1 Webcast-Tuesday, August 28th
NFSv4.1 is a mature and stable protocol with many advantages over N
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August 2, 2012
Will Ethernet storage move to 10GBASE-T?
10GBASE-T is a technology that runs 10Gb Ethernet over familiar Cat
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August 2, 2012
10GbE Answers to Your Questions
Our recent Webcast: 10GbE – Key Trends, Drivers and Predictions was
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July 27, 2012
10GbE – Are You Ready?
Is 10GbE coming of age? Many of us within the SNIA-ESF think so.
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July 12, 2012
Live Webcast: 10GbE – Key Trends, Drivers and Predictions
The SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum (ESF) will be presenting a live Web
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July 9, 2012
Impressions from Cisco Live 2012
I recently attended Cisco Li
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February 22, 2012
SNIA ESF Sponsored Webinar on Advances in NFSv4
Good news.
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October 26, 2011
What’s the story with NFSv4? Four things you need to know.
Experts from SNIA’s Ethernet Storage Forum are going to discuss the
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May 23, 2011
Beyond Potatoes – Migrating from NFSv3
“It is a mistake to think you can solve
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March 14, 2011
Deploying SQL Server with iSCSI – Answers to your questions
by: Gary Gumanow
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October 21, 2010
Ethernet and IP Storage – Today’s Technology Enabling Next Generation Data Centers
I continue to believe that IP based storage protocols will be prefe
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September 24, 2010
Ethernet Storage Market Momentum Continues
The inexorable growth of the m
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September 24, 2010
Ethernet Storage Market Momentum Continues in First Half of 2010
The inexorable growth of the m
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