Boston Learning Centre
Welcome to our newly launched learning centre - the central resource where you can access much of the technical
information that we have available on our site. We work closely with leading edge vendors to ensure that our clients are
taking advantage of the latest and greatest technologies as they are made available to the market.
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IPSAN/iSCSI - The iSCSI Advantage
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The iSCSI Advantage
iSCSI is a new technology that lets you build powerful network storage systems using standard Ethernet networks
and low-cost hardware.
iSCSI's TCP/IP underpinnings mean that even small businesses can create powerful SAN and DAS systems and extend
them over far greater distances - even over the public Internet at fractions of the cost of older, proprietary
storage technologies.
Combined with high reliability and its built-in security systems and controls, iSCSI is rapidly becoming the
storage technology of choice for organisations of all sizes.
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The SAS Advantage
Endorsed by the SCSI Trade Association as the future of SCSI.
Increased storage connectivityIncreased device support and bandwidth scalability
Support for multi-port and multi-path connections
Improved backplane support
Flexibility in server deployment
External enclosures and cascade support
Port Expander technology enables high drive counts
SAS disk drive/SATA drive compatibility
Total management of the storage solution
Lowered cost of ownership
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Migrating to Serial Architectures Technical Paper
Following the recent successful migration of the ATA protocol to a serial bus (now known as Serial ATA), the SCSI
protocol has also been mated to essentially same physical interface (but with two data ports instead of just one)
resulting in the new Serial Attached SCSI (aka SAS) architecture.
Serial busses are becoming more and more widespread in PCs and PC servers, ranging from narrowband technologies
like management busses to high-bandwidth transport mechanisms like PCI Express, SATA and SAS. FBDIMM is the next
evolutionary step for memory towards a serialised interface offering better performance and greater capacities.
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IP-SAN Technical Paper
Storage requirements of smaller and medium size businesses have changed and grown dramatically to the point where
standard DAS and NAS implementations are no longer sufficient to sustain storage requirements in many situations.
The need for implementations has never been greater for small to medium size businesses.
Typically, SAN implementations have only really been available to larger organisations due to the vast cost of
implementing the fibre channel infrastructure necessary to facilitate such a storage model. This has not
necessarily been a serious issue for smaller companies, as DAS and NAS have proven to be adequate for most
scenarios.
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