SAN FRANCISCO, March 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fibre Channel networking sales increased 6% in calendar-year 2025, as enterprise customers continued to invest in this technology to support their ...

“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 ...

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 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 ...

FCoE allows Fibre Channel SANs and devices to connect to each other over Ethernet-based networks and share data without modifying the existing storage infrastructure. This allows the building of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Read all about it: “Fibre Channel interoperability is no longer a problem.” Yeah, right. And I don’t need the Dr. Phil Ultimate Weight Loss Challenge. Fibre Channel vendors would have you believe that ...

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 ...