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Riverbed Granite extends iSCSI in a very cool way

This week, ESG Lab published its Lab Report on the new Riverbed Steelhead EX + Granite.

It was a privilege to work with two ESG Lab Engineers, Tony Palmer and Ajen Johan, to do some hands-on with the new Riverbed technologies.

To me, the really cool part of Granite is how it changes some presumptions [...]

February 2nd, 2012 | Tags: , , | Category: ESG, Storage | Leave a comment

A Look at the Amazon AWS Storage Gateway

Yesterday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the availability of its AWS Storage Gateway, which acts as an iSCSI target, delivered as a virtual appliance.  On-premise servers can connect to the iSCSI device and store their data locally, with snapshots being stored in the Amazon S3 cloud-storage environment.

This announcement coincides with the publishing of ESG’s [...]

January 26th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Data Protection, ESG, Storage | Leave a comment

Every Windows Server can be a iSCSI Target

No, I didn’t do a typo and mean to say "Every Windows Server has an iSCSI Initiator"

And it may only be a slight exaggeration when I say "Every".

But did you know that your Windows Server 2008 R2 server can also be an iSCSI Target? I didn’t.

Typically, one thinks of [...]

December 1st, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: Microsoft, MS Windows Server, Storage | 2 comments