“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 – ...

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 ...

Storage vendors hyped up-and-coming Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) technologies at the Storage Networking World trade show this week. Storage vendors hyped up-and-coming Fibre Channel over ...

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 ...

In a turbulent computing era that is being redefined by highly virtualized environments, solid state storage and cloud-based architectures, unprecedented advancements in storage networks are needed to ...

The storage and IP networking vendor is adding two new blades to its DCX Backbone switch family. The first, the Brocade FX8-24, offers 12 8-Gbit Fibre Channel ports, 10 1-Gbit Ethernet ports and up to ...

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 ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Adtran today launched its market-first FSP 3000 S-Flex ™, a highly versatile DWDM muxponder able to support 64Gbit/s Fibre Channel services. The solution boosts ...

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 ...

Aimed at the optical links existing in host bus adapters (HBAs), switches, and RAID modules, the TXN31015 and TXN31115 optical transceivers support the 4-Gbit/s Fibre Channel specification. The ...

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 ...