“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...