Sunday, February 01, 2004

iSCSI Good For Agency Storage Ills From Government Computer News: Most government agencies have traditionally been more value-oriented than performance-oriented, said David Dale, chairman of SNIA’s Internet Protocol Storage working group. Many agencies do not mind taking a slight performance hit if it saves money, he said. ISCSI SANs would be particularly appealing to agencies that lack network storage but nonetheless find themselves starting to manage terabytes of data, Dale said.  Vendors estimated that iSCSI has 80 percent as much speed as Fibre Channel at 20 percent of the cost.  [News4Sites - Data Storage] 10:58:44 AM    comment []

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States Weigh Entry Into National Terrorism Database Project Although privacy worries led several states to pull out of a federally funded crime and terrorism database project, others are actively considering joining and thereby sharing information on their citizens, The Associated Press has learned.   Related... [CRN.com : Breaking News] 10:14:58 AM    comment []

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Microsoft Spells Out RFID Strategy The company plans to be a major player in RFID by providing a platform for managing retail-time information and bringing RFID-enabled applications to midsize enterprises.  From the RFID Journal, see:  http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/view/779/1/1/ . 7:24:44 AM    comment []

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