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 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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Two decades after its beginning in 1988, the ubiquitous Fibre Channel technology has become ...

Three proposals covering storage over Ethernet coexist in the Internet Engineering Task Force working group: Fibre Channel over Internet Protocol (FCIP), storage-area networks (SANs) that use Fibre ...

Increasing demand for lower latency and higher application performance is pushing the storage industry toward NVMe and NVMe-oF solutions. So, what does NVMe-oF mean for Fibre Channel? The next quantum ...

There is a lot of debate about Fibre Channel over Ethernet and converged network adapters. A CNA is a 10-GbE network interface card that supports multiple data networking protocols, basically TCP/IP ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 06, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) today announced the industry’s first family of Gen 7 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) designed for accelerating ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Since the early 2000s, the storage industry has been at pains to develop an alternative to Fibre ...

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 ...

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.