Brocade's Gen 7 architecture doubles port density using SFP-DD optics and SN connectors, enabling 64 links on every FC64-64 blade. While this advancement accelerates performance, it also introduces ...

“Fibre Channel is dead.” That was the controversial conclusion of one participant in a heated debate at an industry conference back in 2000. Industry vendors were investigating a new protocol – ...

Storage networking vendors announced 16Gb Fibre Channel adapters and switches as early as 2011. When the FCIA (Fibre Channel Industry Association) announced in late 2013 that the INCITS T11 standards ...

In 2013 Fibre Channel achieved several significant milestones. Approximately 11M (10.97M) Fibre Channel ports shipped when you combine adapter and switch ports 1, not even counting target ports on ...

In the past 10 years, Ethernet-based local area networks (LANs) have progressed a great deal, particularly in their data throughput capabilities. Most data communications functions take place on ...

Cisco’s share in Fibre Channel networking fell 45% in the 1st quarter of this year, according to a Dell’Oro report, a move Dell’Oro says may have come about because of channel conflict. Cisco’s share ...

HP this week is unveiling new hybrid hard drives that combine Fibre Channel and ATA technologies. Dubbed Fibre Attached Technology Adapted, or FATA, the new drives are aimed at dropping the cost of ...

James Nardi oversees hundreds of terabytes of data. Sometimes, the disks that it all resides on get hammered more than 10,000 times a second. Sometimes, they get requests only once in a blue moon. “We ...

Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is here now - at last that's according to Intel, which has thrown its weight behind and released code for a new FCoE initiative. Called Open FcoE, the plan is to ...

Leading networking vendors yesterday presented a new standards proposal for using the Fibre Channel protocol over Ethernet networks in order to attach the majority of lower-level data center servers ...

Cisco seeded that start-up, Andiamo Systems, in January 2001 as a developer of IP-based storage products but only early this year publicly announced its existence. The vendor expects to pay as much as ...