ZDNet editor Stephen Shankland reports that iSCSI, a technology that promises to bridge the worlds of data storage and networking, has passed a key point on its path to becoming a usable standard. Shankland writes . . .

” . . . SCSI is a widely used standard for connecting hard drives to computers; iSCSI lets that happen over a network connection such as a company Ethernet network or even the Internet. iSCSI holds the promise of letting multiple computers tap into a pool of storage systems . . .”

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