“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 – ...

SINGAPORE--Storage networking vendor Brocade plans to release Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)-enabled switches by year-end, for customers to test the emerging technology that is not expected to ...

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of “Storage Area Network Fundamentals” (ISBN 158705065X ) published courtesy of Cisco Press. With the growing popularity of storage area networks (SANs), ...

Data access speeds for enterprise applications are becoming more critical; as is the need to support evolving storage requirements, which in turn is driving the ...

The Tachyon QE4 (HPFC-6600) 4G Fibre channel controller interfaces seamlessly with the company's relevant loop switch devices to create a complete fabric-to-disk-drive solution for enterprise storage ...

Fiber deep means bringing fiber deeper into the network, and thus closer to the customers, than it is in a non fiber deep architecture. Fiber deep solves a lot of the problems mentioned above by ...

Colt Technology Services has announced the successful completion of the deployment of a new dark fiber (G.652D/G.657) cable along the Channel Tunnel connecting London to Paris. The infrastructure ...

While it’s a fact that most storage is still attached directly to the server that accesses it, is also true that storage continues to move at a steady pace onto the network. In all but the smallest IT ...