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Innovation and growth in Fibre Channel adoption continues to grow – and your career can too.In fact, as a generation of Fibre Channel technical experts retire, the need for Fibre Channel technical training is greater than ever. Despite the demand, there is a lack of training at the academic level in teaching the basics of [...]

FCIA experts took a deep dive on the role Fibre Channel plays in Kubernetes environments at our recent live webcast “Kubernetes and Fibre Channel: A Compelling Case.” Scott Sinclair, Practice Director and Senior Analyst at ESG set the stage with research on state of data storage, cloud, and the impact of containers. If you missed [...]

The zoning service in Fibre Channel (FC) makes security possible by ensuring that end devices are able to communicate only with the set of devices explicitly permitted. FC Zoning was the topic at our recent FCIA webcast “Fibre Channel Zoning Fundamentals: All You Need to Know.” At this presentation, our expert speakers AJ Casamento, Rupin [...]

How Fibre Channel is purpose built and engineered to meet the demands of enterprise data centers requiring rock solid reliability, high performance, and scalability was explained in detail at our FCIA webcasts “Inside a Modern Fibre Channel Architecture: Part 1” and “Inside a Modern Fibre Channel Architecture: Part 2.” During these presentations, our expert speakers, [...]

Fibre Channel is the original secure storage fabric. Perfected over 25 years, the zoning service in Fibre Channel makes security possible by ensuring that end devices are able to communicate only with the set of devices explicitly permitted. On December 2, 2021, we will follow up our Fibre Channel Basics, webcast with “Fibre Channel Zoning [...]

With over 142 million ports shipped and in use, Fibre Channel (FC) is the proven storage protocol for enterprise data centers. Fibre Channel is purpose built and engineered to meet the demands of enterprise data centers requiring rock solid reliability, high performance, and scalability. In other words, Fibre Channel technology is storage technology! Join us [...]

INCITS committees have not been idled by the pandemic.  Sure, we all miss the face-to-face discussions, however progress using virtual meetings continues to be realized and the Fibre Channel (FC) market remains strong as a transition to 32GFC and 64GFC continues and the standards for 128GFC come together.  This 6th blog edition for How Fibre [...]