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iSCSI
- editor mentions on StorageSearch.com
Storage History
- StorageSearch.com published the industry's first
iSCSI directory
in
March 2001.
iSCSI
is an interface technology which emulates
parallel SCSI
protocols, but the connection method is via an IP network instead of a directly
attached SCSI compatible cable.
SCSI is an intelligent protocol which
enables data blocks to be read from or sent at high speed to a storage device
such as a
disk or
tape drive. Early
implementations of SCSI used ribbon cable and industry standard logic levels.
The promise of iSCSI is that storage management software which was
orginally written for the well established SCSI standard, can now be used to
make a remote disk or tape drive on a network operate just like a local disk.
The network can be a local area network such as ethernet, or even the Internet.
The potential benefit is that users can connect to remote storage devices to
replicate data without having to invest in writing huge amounts of new
(proprietary) software. |
