Since the early 2000s, the storage industry has been at pains to develop an alternative to Fibre Channel for storage networks based on Ethernet and IP, which became known as "IP storage." Well known ...

Although Fibre Channel is seeing single-digit growth rates, Ethernet for storage is exploding Fibre Channel, the high-speed data transport protocol for storage area networks (SAN), is under increasing ...

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 ...

Effectively using network storage technologies is a crucial part of any data storage management strategy. Simply relying on hard drives, JBODs or other types of local storage just isn't enough to ...

Finisar Corp. has announced the industry's first comprehensive 8 Gb/s Fibre Channel (FC) test solution designed specifically for development and testing of advanced storage systems. The Xgig 8 Gb/s FC ...

Some of these features were supported by other storage media, but the hard disk was the first medium to support all of these features. Consequently, the hard disk helped make many advances possible in ...

With an increasing demand for lower latency and higher application performance, the storage industry has been moving toward NVMe and NVMeoF solutions. And it could significantly impact Fibre Channel.

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 ...

We recently looked at NVMe, a PCIe-based protocol that allows computers to communicate with storage in a way optimised for flash storage, with huge increases in input/output (I/O) and throughput ...

In 1897 the great American author, Mark Twain was rumored to have stated, “the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”. In the tech industry, Fibre Channel could make the same statement. It seems ...

A high-speed transport technology used to build storage area networks (SANs). Although Fibre Channel can be used as a general-purpose network carrying ATM, IP and other protocols, it has been ...

The next quantum leap in storage technologies is driving the need for faster storage fabrics to transport this data surge. Such an acceleration in storage demand and solutions requires storage ...