It’s easy to take technology standards for granted, forgetting that they underpin the technology we use every day. Ever wonder how they actually are made? Join us on March 31st for our next FCIA live webcast, The Making of Fibre Channel Standards. In this webcast we’ll break down how the standard development process works, explain [...]
“Priceless” - that’s how one attendee described our recent FCIA webcast, “Fibre Channel SAN Workloads.” Our expert presenters, Barry Maskas, Nishant Lodha and Mark Jones, provided some great insights on how Fibre Channel delivers on reliability and performance for application workloads. If you missed it, it’s available to watch on-demand. As promised during the live [...]
As we promised in our last blog, “Who is INCITS,” we are now going to take a look at INCITS (International Committee for Information Technology Standards) groups in greater detail, including answering the extremely common question: What is the difference between T10, T11, and T13? And what happened to T12?! The three INCITS committees, T10, [...]
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated announced that its subsidiary, Teledyne LeCroy, Inc., has acquired OakGate Technology. OakGate, headquartered in Loomis, California, is a leading provider of test, validation, and benchmarking products for the Electronic Storage Industry and Data Centers. Flash memory controller suppliers, solid state and rotational drive vendors, and storage system OEMs use a broad range [...]
Fibre Channel (FC) SAN workloads are not difficult, but there are several people who do not understand how the workloads line up to appropriate storage protocol and their characteristics. It’s the next topic the FCIA will tackle at our first webcast of the new year. Join us on February 12, 2020 at 10:00 am PT for [...]
As we learn more about the standards process, it’s important to note that every organization has its own way of doing things. Fibre Channel, for instance, works under the guidance of INCITS. Who is INCITS? INCITS -- the Inter National Committee for Information Technology Standards – colloquially pronounced as “Insights” -- is the central U.S. [...]
Enhanced 32GFC accelerates NVMe access with 50% more IOPS and lower latency SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) today announced that its QLogic® line of Enhanced 32GFC PCIe® Gen 4 HBAs are now available from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) for their ProLiant and Apollo Gen 10 servers. HPE Gen 10 servers [...]
One of Fibre Channel’s greatest strengths is its ability to scale to thousands and thousands of nodes, while providing predictable performance. So, when we say that Fibre Channel has unmatched scalability, what does that actually mean? And how does it work? Find out on November 6, 2019 when the FCIA will present Fibre Channel Scaling. [...]
This blog is part of a series. We encourage you to also read “How Fibre Channel Standards Are Made, Part I: What Are Standards?” and “How Fibre Channel Standards Are Made, Bonus I: Interaction Between Standards?” As we explore the subject of how Fibre Channel standards are made, one useful thing to know in the [...]
