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 ...

While 1/2Gbit Fibre Channels have foundapplications in SAN, the Fibre Channel industryis turning its eyes to 10Gbit networks. What will this evolution belike and how will it affect the type of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ethernet has become the communication protocol of choice for much in-house as well as cloud storage. Ethernet is the basis for Network Attached Storage (NAS) storage file sharing capabilities and ...

Cisco seeded that start-up, Andiamo Systems, in January 2001 as a developer of IP-based storage products but only early this year publicly announced its existence. The vendor expects to pay as much as ...

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.

Storage switch vendor McData Corp. Tuesday said it is acquiring Computer Network Technology Corp. in a $235 million deal. CNT is a leader in WAN extension and long-distance data replication technology ...

Fibre Channel is the king of enterprise storage-area-network technologies. ISCSI, however, is the heir apparent. When it comes to new SANs, add-ons to existing systems or departmental-level ...

Although Fibre Channel has been around for a while, it's just now starting to be accepted within the enterprise. As such, there are still many IT pros who don't understand Fibre Channel. In this ...