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Tom Clark

Tom Clark is a principal engineer in technical marketing at Brocade. He is author of Designing Storage Area Networks: A Practical Reference for Implementing Fibre Channel and IP SANs, 2d ed. (Addison-Wesley).
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Make the Most of Your SAN with iSCSI

By Tom Clark, 08/30/2007

Microsoft offers new iSCSI-enabling software, making it possible to cost-effectively bring Windows servers into the data center.

Shared Storage for the Masses

By Tom Clark, 10/21/2002

Tom Clark shares how the Internet SCSI (iSCSI) host adapters, IP storage switches, and iSCSI-to-SCSI bridge products are changing the composition and costs of SANs so that even ...

Quality of Service for SANs

By Tom Clark, 08/05/2002

SAN vendors are scrambling to satisfy customer demands for better management, security, and QoS features.

Enabling iSCSI Migration

By Tom Clark, 07/15/2002

Read Tom Clark's perspective on the future of Internet SCSI (iSCSI), which has been the subject of rampant speculation in the storage industry for the past 2 years.

Enabling iSCSI Migration

By Tom Clark, 07/15/2002

Read Tom Clark's take on the future of Internet SCSI (iSCSI), which has been the subject of speculation in the storage industry for the past 2 years.

The Intelligent Storage Network

By Tom Clark, 06/17/2002

Tom Clark discusses the inherent contradictions between combining storage and networking technologies into an integral solution.

Storage Resource Management

By Tom Clark, 05/13/2002

Learn how integrating intelligent SRM agents into the OS simplifies the storage process and helps contain the unrelenting growth of data.

Infrastructures and Applications

By Tom Clark, 04/15/2002

Just as essential services support the typical neighborhood, an underlying infrastructure provides the "plumbing" for your data communications network. Running applications ...

Standardization and Storage-Networking Technologies

By Tom Clark, 03/18/2002

The emergence of open systems has had a profound impact on the development of data-communications technologies. Read Tom Clark's perspective on this subject as it relates to ...

Storage Virtualization in Process

By Tom Clark, 02/11/2002

The curious reader might ask, "Why virtualize storage at all? What's wrong with ordinary physical storage?" Learn why virtualization still maintains the glow of tremendous ...

Disaster Recovery in an Uncertain World

By Tom Clark, 01/07/2002

Following the September 11 attacks, the storage-networking industry was in an awkward situation. Rather than exploit the surge of interest in disaster recovery, most vendors ...

What Drives Storage Networking Innovation?

By Tom Clark, 12/03/2001

For storage networking to achieve widespread adoption, who must lead the storage industry and draw the guidelines for its further evolution. Is it customers? Is it vendors? Learn ...

The Future of Storage Networking

By Tom Clark, 10/29/2001

What lies ahead for Storage Networking? What's its value for enterprise networks? How do storage virtualization and IP storage networking fit into the scope of mainstream ...

Storage Area Network Security

By Tom Clark, 10/08/2001

The introduction of SANS has changed the view of secure data storage--peer-to-peer networking technology has the potential for unsercured access. Learn how SANs security is ...

Standards Compliance Versus Interoperability

By Tom Clark, 09/10/2001

Standards compliance doesn't guarantee interoperability. Conversely, interoperability doesn't guarantee standards conformance. Read Tom Clark's view of the subject in today's ...

Can IP Storage Save the Day?

By Tom Clark, 08/20/2001

As the technology sector goes through tough times, even the storage industry is feeling the effects of the current uncertainty. Read about the challenges and opportunities in ...



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Essential Guides

Is your iSCSI "lossy"? The reality is that most off-the-shelf Ethernet hardware deployed for iSCSI can lose packets, resulting in slow performance or application downtime. Learn how to assess your current iSCSI infrastructure and engineer an advanced iSCSI SAN infrastructure.

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