Faster SANs are on the horizon as the next Fibre Channel specification, calling for 32G bps (bits per second), nears publication. Fibre Channel is the traditional interface for storage area networks ...

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 ...

“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 – ...

Today the Serial Attached SCSI expanders inside those JBODS or RAID systems allow you to extend the SCSI bus outside the boxes, daisy chaining them to hundreds of additional storage devices over an ...

I'm re-building my home lab storage machine at the moment and one thing I've never tinkered with before is Fibre Channel and FCoE so I thought it might be worth looking into to see if I can get some ...

Storage area networks are about to get a whole lot faster as the various components necessary to put together a 4-Gbps Fibre Channel SAN finally hits the market. Fibre Channel SANs currently run at 2 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aliso Viejo-based QLogic Corp. grew its market share lead in the first quarter over rival Emulex Corp. in Costa Mesa in fibre-channel adapters, a key segment of networking electronics. Fibre-channel ...

Helping to push Fibre Channel technology forward, Infineon Technologies announced on Tuesday a Fibre Channel transceiver that transmits data at a rate of 4 gigabits per second. With the announcement, ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 11, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) today announced immediate availability of its Emulex Gen 7 LPe36000-series Host Bus Adapters (HBAs)— the world’s first ...

So as a consultant, I am thrown into many situations where I have no clue about the technology, but must learn fast. Basically, I need to install another VMware host into a cluster that is connected ...