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Virtual Instruments probes storage network fabrics

...Network analytics specialist Virtual Instruments has unveiled a hardware appliance that inspects Fibre Channel networks to troubleshoot problems. The 8Gb SAN Performance Probe is a... Read more

30 August, 2011 by Jack Clark

Cisco revamp opens up network with FCoE

...datacentre fabric, pushing out a comprehensive update that brings end-to-end Fibre Channel over Ethernet connectivity to the networking company's core switching and... Read more

31 March, 2011 by Jack Clark

Intel releases Open FCoE to boost 10Gb Ethernet

...on Thursday, means that traffic from NFS (Network File System), iSCSI or Fibre Channel can all be carried Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), creating a... Read more

28 January, 2011 by Jack Clark

IBM storage targets smaller datacentres

...Express is a single-controller storage system that provides multiple connectivity options — Fibre Channel, iSCSI and SAS — so that businesses can set up tiered storage... Read more

2 June, 2010 by Matthew Broersma

Brocade bumps Fibre Channel up to 16Gbps

...Brocade has introduced a 16Gbps Fibre Channel product portfolio designed to help private clouds deal with higher networking... Read more

4 May, 2011 by Jack Clark

Intel opens Fibre Channel over Ethernet

Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is here now - at last that's according... Read more

28 January, 2011

Researchers demo 512Gbps over single fibre channel

Deutsche Telekom's T-Labs says the enhanced data technology should allow for single fibre strands with a 24.6Tbps throughput Read more

5 March, 2012 by David Meyer
Designing Next-Generation SANs With Brocade 4 Gbit/sec <endeca_term>Fibre Channel</endeca_term> Solutions

Designing Next-Generation SANs With Brocade 4 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel Solutions

The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) has officially supported the 4 Gbit/sec Fibre... Read more

29 May, 2010
Using the Sun Storage 7000 <endeca_term>Fibre Channel</endeca_term> Target With Veritas Storage Foundation / DMP Quick Start Guide

Using the Sun Storage 7000 Fibre Channel Target With Veritas Storage Foundation / DMP Quick Start Guide

...quick overview on how to configure the Sun Storage 7000 to provide Fibre Channel storage for use with Veritas Storage Foundation / DMP. It contains details... Read more

1 June, 2010

Exchange Completion Time - Defining Storage Performance

Roll back several years and certain vendors had you believe that Fibre Channel was dead and that the future would be iSCSI. A few... Read more

4 December, 2011

Is it time for ATA-over-Ethernet?

...storage packets around the datacentre, there's one protocol that's king: Fibre Channel (FC -- and they even spell it properly). But everyone is predicting... Read more

18 August, 2011
Components Based Key Management Algorithm for Storage Area Networks

Components Based Key Management Algorithm for Storage Area Networks

...and file distributions are the two primary functions of network attached storages. Fibre Channel based Storage Area Networks (FC-SAN) have become a more popular... Read more

1 May, 2011
DAS to SAN Migration Using a Storage Concentrator

DAS to SAN Migration Using a Storage Concentrator

A common side effect of server consolidation projects or implementing a centralized Fibre Channel SAN is scores of unused disk arrays. Many organizations are reluctant... Read more

30 September, 2010
Oracle VM Server for X86 Live Migration With EMC VPLEX and Syinmetrix VMAX

Oracle VM Server for X86 Live Migration With EMC VPLEX and Syinmetrix VMAX

...an enterprise-class storage federation technology that aggregates and manages poois of Fibre Channel attached storage arrays that can reside within a single data center... Read more

7 September, 2010
Dell PowerEdge T320

Dell PowerEdge T320

Dell has done a lot more than simply upgrade the PowerEdge T320 to the new Xeon E5-2400 processor. Memory and storage also get a huge boost, and there's optional iDRAC 7 management and an embedded hypervisor option, making this a real SME power platform. Read more

14 May, 2012 by Alan Stevens

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