BrandPost: 32GFC – Long Live Fibre Channel!
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...
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BrandPost: Taking FC SANs to the Next Level with Clustered/Scalable SANs
Today’s enterprises face increasing amount of data that they need to store, manage, and back up. Using scale-out or clustered storage is an advantageous way to respond to growth in a storage...
View ArticleBrandPost: A Milestone Year for Fibre Channel
For almost 20 years I've been involved with Fibre Channel, initially starting when Fibre Channel was only 531.25 Mbit/sec or "half speed." A lot has transpired since then, including an infamous white...
View ArticleBrandPost: 16Gb Fibre Channel Ensures Rackspace Has Their Customers Covered
Founded in San Antonio in 1998, Rackspace’s operations have now expanded to include nine data centers across four continents with thousands of customers. These customers turn to Rackspace to deliver...
View ArticleBrandPost: In Fibre Channel We Trust
Noted author and motivational speaker Stephen R. Covey once wrote that "Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience." Mirroring...
View ArticleBrandPost: BB-6 Fibre Channel Standard Improves Data Center Storage Networks
The T11 standards bodies have been working diligently over the past two years to codify the Fibre Channel Backbone 6 (FC-BB-6) standard.One of the principal developments in its predecessor, FC-BB-5,...
View ArticleBrandPost: Better Together: Fibre Channel Fabrics and Flash Storage
Data access speeds for enterprise applications are becoming more critical; as is the need to support evolving storage requirements, which in turn is driving the deployment of Flash for tier-I storage....
View ArticleBrandPost: Symantec Turns to Fibre Channel to Accommodate Future Data Growth
Fibre Channel proves it offers superior value and consistently demonstrates why it’s the purpose-built storage solution you can trust. Look no further than Symantec for a prime example.Symantec...
View ArticleBrandPost: Fibre Channel: Supporting Evolving Storage Requirements
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...
View ArticleBrandPost: Legend3D: The Drive for Sustained Performance
With a portfolio of major motion pictures including Spiderman 3D, Alice in Wonderland, Transformers and Pirates of the Caribbean, Legend3D’s digital media technology and visual effects are, shall we...
View ArticleBrandPost: Why AOL, The Huffington Post, MapQuest and Moviefone Depend on...
AOL offers services to over 24 million mail users and manages content and advertisement for 56 of the best known destination brand websites – such as The Huffington Post, Moviefone and MapQuest. When...
View ArticleBrandPost: “Latency: The Other Critical Storage Networking Metric”
From a data storage perspective, the definition of latency is the time it takes for a data packet to travel from the initiator within the primary server to the target device. Excessive latency can be...
View ArticleBrandPost: State of the Fibre Channel Industry
In 2013 Fibre Channel achieved several significant milestones. Approximately 11M (10.97M) Fibre Channel ports shipped when you combine adapter and switch ports1, not even counting target ports on...
View ArticleBrandPost: Speed and convergence: following the FCIA roadmap to success
The heart and soul of any technology, and the industry association that stewards the technology, is its technology roadmap. Just like the term suggests, a roadmap shows the history of a technology,...
View ArticleBrandPost: Data Center Connectivity Management Systems: A Critical Component...
IT must support a growing number of applications and services running on a 24x7x365 basis and secure them against an array of constantly evolving cyber threats. Worse yet, IT organizations aren’t...
View ArticleBrandPost: The Role of 16Gb Fibre Channel in Today’s Data Center
In my role as head of IDC's Data Center research practice, I've been spending a lot of time lately with CIOs who are facing some serious data center decisions. The crux of these decisions is how to...
View ArticleBrandPost: Fibre Channel Tutorial – The Basics
The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) created the "Trusted Foundation," an initiative designed to raise awareness to current and potential users of storage networking about why Fibre Channel...
View ArticleBrandPost: Structured Connectivity Bolsters Next-Gen SAN Performance and...
Data centers have undergone their share of physical, functional and definitional change in the last 50 years. Expectations driven by growing awareness and reliance on IT from business have accompanied...
View ArticleBrandPost: 16Gb Fibre Channel Eases Data Center Traffic Jams
Storage networking vendors announced 16Gb Fibre Channel adapters and switches as early as 2011. Since then, data center managers with I/O-intensive workloads have been future-proofing their SANs in...
View ArticleBrandPost: 32GFC – Long Live Fibre Channel!
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...
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