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SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — The Storage Networking Industry Association this week announced a doubling its efforts to put tutorials for IT managers and storage administers online. The group said it hopes to ...

Figure 1. A screen capture of an exchange between a desktop computer and a DHCP server. Click here to see an enlarged diagram. Frequently, all that is required to establish a connection to the ...