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Fibre Channel has a laser-focus on speed and continues to progress at a blistering pace. Fibre Channel is continually evolving to higher speeds to meet the high bandwidth needs of storage applications. When large blocks of data are moved between servers and storage, the performance of the application is directly dependent on how fast the data can fly. The storage industry has come to rely on Fibre Channel to deliver superior performance and reliability for mission-critical applications.

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Fibre Channel is at the heart of the data center connecting servers to storage, and relied upon for the most strenuous workloads. For example, Fibre Channel is deployed in many high-end applications in financial and governmental institutions where reliability and scalability are paramount. Fibre Channel consistently delivers greater than “five 9s” or 99.999% uptime as measured by vendors and customers in data center deployments worldwide. Fibre Channel storage area networks are often completely redundant to ensure constant service and uncorrupted data without single points of failure.

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Webcasts

Presenters:

  • Howard Johnson, Broadcom
  • Mark Jones, Broadcom
  • Nishant Lodha, Marvell
  • Rupin Mohan, HPE
  • Kiran Ranabhor, Cisco

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Fibre Channel (FC) networks run on a highly streamlined protocol designed to offer persistently high performance. The FC protocol has built-in feedback mechanisms to avoid congestion and to alleviate it if it occurs. There are many new technologies being developed to monitor and manage performance and availability issues that may arise from time to time. Moreover, many of these tools are available across the ecosystem and are part of the FC standard.

Come listen to Fibre Channel technology experts to understand:
• New technologies like FPIN notification
• Automation built-in the storage networks
• Exciting new innovations coming to the FC network
• How to ensure predictable performance
• QoS considerations
• Why FC is the best transport protocol for storage environments

Presenters:

  • Scott Sinclair, Enterprise Strategy Group
  • Marcus Thordal, Broadcom
  • Craig Carlson, Marvell
  • Kiran Ranabhor, Cisco

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Got Fibre Channel questions? Here’s your chance to get them answered. Coming together from multiple vendors and various technical disciplines, the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA’s) depth of Fibre Channel expertise in unmatched. This panel is moderated by Scott Sinclair, Senior Analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group.

Presenters:

  • Casey Quillin, Quillin Research
  • Rupin Mohan, HPE
  • Craig Carlson, Marvell
  • Mark Jones, Broadcom

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Gen 7, the newest generation of Fibre Channel, doubles performance to 64GFC with switches and HBAs now available in the market. But what does 2021 hold for the network protocol standard? What impact will NVMe over Fibre Channel have in the datacenter? Tune into this webcast to hear answers to these questions and more.

Founder and principal market analyst Casey Quillin of Quillin Research, will provide his perspective on storage networking trends and will join FCIA experts as they share insights on the continued innovation of Fibre Channel and what datacenter managers can expect in 2021 and beyond.

Attendees will be provided with a link to the latest edition of the 2020 Fibre Channel Solutions Guide, packed with additional technical information to help you navigate the networking landscape.

Join us for a look at:

  • Storage networking trends
  • The features and timing of Fibre Channel technology migration reflected in the Fibre Channel Roadmap
  • The need for standards
  • Fibre Channel security standards
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2020 Solutions Guide

Data center networking continues to be a critical piece of the puzzle in designing technology solutions to solve complex business problems for customers. Customer data and secure access to this data with high availability, reliability and performance sounds like a simple set of requirements but continues to be challenging to deliver in the real world….

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Society is living through a difficult time. The crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic has left no one untouched, and the virus continues to claim human lives. We at the FCIA, wish all of our members, colleagues, and their families, good health and hope they stay safe…

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Potentially, the only technology pronounced dead more often than Fibre Channel is tape, yet both are alive and well. In 2018, the Fibre Channel (FC) market saw a return to growth…

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When companies invest in a technology, they want to know that they will get a return on their investment for years to come. Fibre Channel has had a very accurate roadmap for over a decade, showing the past, present and future of the Fibre Channel physical layer. Fibre Channel has been progressing since 1996 by doubling the data rate every few years and the roadmap shows the progression will continue far into the future…

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The good old days: when we talked about congestion but didn’t really see it in the wild. When we did, it was a big deal. We would sit down with the customer to work out a solution. By we, I mean the storage, server, HBA and switch vendors to name a few. This was a long and costly process. Teams of engineers going though endless data to pinpoint the root cause so it could be addressed…

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In the world of information technology, companies investing in Fibre Channel (FC) SANs must ensure that they use products and product components that work interchangeably with other products from other companies. Having multiple suppliers is often considered essential for business continuity purposes…

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Fibre Channel is a purpose-built and proven storage network designed to meet the demands of enterprise data centers that require high availability, low latency, extreme reliability and seamless scalability…

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Past Solutions Guides

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Sponsor Members

Broadcom

Marvell




Principal Members

Amphenol

Cisco

HPE

IBM

Teledyne




Associate Members




Observer Members

SanBlaze

Viavi




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