Microsoft Releases iSCSI Driver Package
Posted by Tom Warren on 30 June 2003 - 13:00 · 12 comments & 1436 views
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#1 Posted by Mr. Black on 30 Jun 2003 - 16:36
- Er, I've never heard of this...
Anyone care to point an article to me so I can read up about this? -
#1.1 Posted by jizness on 30 Jun 2003 - 18:21
- Or you could of actually read the article before posting... Just proof people dont reads the articles....
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#1.2 Posted by Tom Servo on 30 Jun 2003 - 18:40
- Mr. Afroamerican: You got stupid instead of blood flowing thru your vessels?
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#1.5 Posted by JaggedFlame on 30 Jun 2003 - 23:11
- rofl, "Mr. Afroamerican"
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#1.6 Posted by ripgut on 01 Jul 2003 - 10:06
QUOTE (#1.2) Mr. Afroamerican
huh, can we get a mod in here? i sense a lil racism, but please prove me wrong
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#2 Posted by kairon on 30 Jun 2003 - 17:27
- iSCSI
iSCSI
iSCSI is Internet SCSI (Small Computer System Interface), an Internet Protocol (IP)-based storage networking standard for linking data storage facilities, developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). By carrying SCSI commands over IP networks, iSCSI is used to facilitate data transfers over intranets and to manage storage over long distances. The iSCSI protocol is among the key technologies expected to help bring about rapid development of the storage area network (SAN) market, by increasing the capabilities and performance of storage data transmission. Because of the ubiquity of IP networks, iSCSI can be used to transmit data over local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), or the Internet and can enable location-independent data storage and retrieval.
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#3 Posted by Tom Servo on 30 Jun 2003 - 18:43
- I wonder if we'll ever see cheap iSCSI IDE drive racks.
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#4 Posted by ripgut on 01 Jul 2003 - 10:13
- Tom Servo how do automatically assume hes african american bro u need to suck on a golfball and choke
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#5 Posted by Tom Servo on 01 Jul 2003 - 11:28
- As said above already, if you're too stupid to grasp that joke (Mr. Black, Mr. Afroamerican), you should do nature a favor and remove yourself from the gene pool! I can help you out with a sortiment of guns if you wish.
Recently ratified by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), iSCSI is a storage protocol designed to transport block-level storage traffic over Internet Protocol (IP) networks. It enables low-cost solutions that provide businesses with performance, reliability and security technologies for their storage area networks (SANs). According to Gartner Dataquest*, by 2006 iSCSI will emerge to connect nearly 1.5 million servers to SANs -- more than any competing technology.
Microsoft is playing an important role in bringing the storage vendor community together to make iSCSI-based applications and storage devices a reality for customers. More than 85 independent software vendors (ISVs) and independent hardware vendors (IHVs) are developing Windows-based applications and storage hardware products for iSCSI. To ensure technology interoperability and quality assurance for its customers, Microsoft has created an iSCSI Designed for Windows Logo Program to enable IHVs to qualify their Windows-targeted iSCSI hardware components for optimal reliability and interoperability with Microsoft Windows products.
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Vodafone operations already use bare-bones RealNetworks software to bring live TV and music clips to handsets.
The deal will also affect mobile phone purchases, since Vodafone will tell vendors it prefers handsets with RealOne.
"Real will be able to sell to many more operators and handset vendors on the back of this deal," said industry analyst Neil Mawston at Strategy Analytics.
He said Real was now also well ahead of rivals such as Israel's Emblaze and PacketVideo.
A tough challenge looms, however, from software titan Microsoft, which already took a big chunk of the market for software that feeds live media to personal computers -- after Real pioneered the product in the 1990s.
Microsoft includes its Media Player in the ubiquitous Windows software that runs 90 percent of all personal computers and about half of all handheld computers.
Cell phones, however, will be no pushover for the world's largest software company, with hardly any of the 450 million cell phones that will be sold this year running on Windows.
As for RealNetworks, Finland's Nokia is so far the only handset maker with the RealOne player pre-installed on some mobile phone models, although Siemens AG and Samsung Electronics will soon start selling high-end handsets with the software.
The software will also be available for downloading to some phones and comes pre-installed on a several handheld computers from Palm, Hewlett-Packard and NEC.
Windows Media Player and RealOne generally are not compatible and cannot decode and play content encoded in the other format.
The RealNetworks software in Vodafone's mobile networks, however, will allow streaming of other formats, including the open MPEG4 format, Apple Computer's QuickTime and Windows Media Player. This keeps Vodafone's options open to include Microsoft devices in its handset range.