The FCIA recently hosted a fascinating discussion on Fibre Channel Fabric Notifications called “Introducing Fabric Notifications, From Awareness to Action” where our panel of Fibre Channel experts, Howard Johnson, Mark Jones, Nishant Lodha, Rupin Mohan and Kiran Ranabhor explained how Fabric Notifications work and highlighted some exciting new innovations. If you missed the live panel [...]
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 [...]
The FCIA recently hosted a webcast “Fibre Channel Outlook – 2021 and Beyond” where FCIA experts from Broadcom, HPE and Marvell shred insights on the continued innovation of the Fibre Channel network protocol standard. Our FCIA experts were joined by industry analyst, Casey Quillin, founder and principal market analyst of Quillin Research, who will provided [...]
Fibre Channel Industry Association Elects 2021 Board of Directors as Fibre Channel Remains the Network Protocol of Choice for Datacenter Storage FCIA roadmap remains robust with Gen 7 Solutions Capable of 64GFC for the Storage Area Networking Market MINNEAPOLIS, February 22, 2021 – With a focus on maintaining Fibre Channel’s position in [...]
Blogger Cody Hosterman recently published a blog on the topic of booting from a SAN via NVMe-oF, which he believes is only currently supported via Fibre Channel. Check out his full article, which is full of great resources including a list of NVMe-oF capable HBAs. Check it out here: https://www.codyhosterman.com/2021/02/whats-new-in-purity-6-1-esxi-nvme-of-fibre-channel-boot-from-san/
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. On February 24, 2021, FCIA experts will share their knowledge by answering your Fibre Channel questions at our live webcast “Got Fibre [...]
There’s a lot happening in the world of NVMe over Fibre Channel (FC-NVMe). That’s why the FCIA hosted a live webcast “What’s New in FC-NVMe-2?” where our FCIA experts, Mark Jones, Craig Carlson and Marcus Thordal explained the latest updates with the standard, the intricacies of error detection and recovery, how to ensure the most [...]
Visit FCIA’s Showcase at Flash Memory Summit and Enter to Win Apple AirPods Pro MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., November 10, 2020 – In conjunction with its sponsorship of the 2020 virtual Flash Memory Summit, The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) today provided updates to several new Fibre Channel standards, continuing the ongoing development of the network protocol of [...]
What is the 2021 outlook for Fibre Channel? What impact will NVMe over Fibre Channel have in the data center? What’s does the updated Fibre Channel Roadmap look like? Find out answers to these questions and more at our next live FCIA webcast on December 3, 2020, “Fibre Channel Outlook – 2021 and Beyond” where [...]
Recently, the FCIA hosted a live webcast, “Data Center Scalability Made Easy with Fibre Channel Services” where our Fibre Channel experts, Barry Maskas of HPE, David Peterson of Broadcom and Kiran Ranabhor of Cisco provided context to the terminology and explanations on Fibre Channel Services, including device and topology discovery, zoning, security, clock synchronization and [...]
