Jordan Grote, Author at Fibre Channel Industry Association

Broadcom Unveils Industry’s First Gen 7 64Gb/s Fibre Channel Switching Platforms Enabling an Autonomous SAN

New End-to-End 64Gb/s Storage Solutions Boast Industry-Leading Switches, Adapters, and Transceivers SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 01, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) today announced the availability of the industry’s first Gen 7 64Gb/s Fibre Channel switching platforms— the Brocade X7 Directors and G720 Switch, that are foundational infrastructure for the on-demand data center. Additionally, [...]

Jordan Grote2020-09-01T16:51:34-05:00September 1st, 2020|

FCIA Announces Completion of the Fibre Channel-NVMe-2 Standard With Groundbreaking Features for Increased Reliability in the Data Center

FCIA Announces Completion of the Fibre Channel-NVMe-2 Standard With Groundbreaking Features for Increased Reliability in the Data Center FC-NVMe-2 Includes Sequence Level Error Recovery Which Optimizes How Fibre Channel Transports NVM Express™ (NVMe) Natively in Today’s Datacenters MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., August 11, 2020 – The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) today announced the International Committee on [...]

Jordan Grote2020-08-10T16:22:23-05:00August 10th, 2020|

How Fibre Channel Services Make Data Center Scalability Easy

Fibre Channel continues to evolve to ensure easy scalability within the data center and Fibre Channel Services such as the Fabric Login Server, Fabric Controller, and Name Server are among the capabilities that are used to support and simplify management and operation of a Fibre Channel Fabric. Fabric Services also meet the need for traffic [...]

Jordan Grote2020-07-27T11:36:51-05:00July 27th, 2020|

FC-NVMe Q&A

In our most recent FCIA webcast, we asked “Is FC-NVMe Ready for Prime Time?” Of course, the answer was a resounding “Yes.” During the live event, our FCIA experts highlighted a snapshot of where the industry is with FC-NVMe, its key differentiators and the breadth of solutions available today. If you missed the live event [...]

Jordan Grote2020-07-14T12:02:35-05:00July 14th, 2020|

Broadcom Delivers First-Ever NVMe over Fibre Channel In-Box Drivers for VMware ESXi 7.0

Emulex HBAs by Broadcom Deliver More than Twice the Performance for Virtual Machines Running on ESXi 7.0 with NVMe over Fibre Channel SAN JOSE, Calif., April 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) announced today its Emulex Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) are the industry’s first-ever HBAs to provide full support for VMware [...]

Jordan Grote2020-04-29T09:56:00-05:00April 29th, 2020|

The Current State of NVMe over Fibre Channel

Where are we today with NVMe over Fibre Channel (FC-NVMe) solutions? Find out on June 9, 2020 when the FICA hosts a live webcast, “Is FC-NVMe Ready for Prime Time?” The T11 specification for (FC-NVMe) was completed in 2018. Since that time, the FCIA has hosted numerous plugfests and products have been shipping now for years. [...]

Jordan Grote2020-04-24T10:29:37-05:00April 21st, 2020|

Fibre Channel Industry Association Elects 2020 Board of Directors as Data Center Trends Drive Fibre Channel Adoption

Fibre Channel Industry Association Elects 2020 Board of Directors as Data Center Trends Drive Fibre Channel Adoption INCITS T11 Publishes Fibre Channel Physical Interface Standards, Speeding Development of 64GFC and Gen 7 Solutions for the Storage Area Networking Market MINNEAPOLIS, March 17, 2020 – Amidst an expanding market being driven by major data center trends, the [...]

Jordan Grote2020-03-17T09:57:28-05:00March 17th, 2020|

Here’s How Fibre Channel Standards are Made

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 [...]

Jordan Grote2020-03-06T10:09:51-06:00March 6th, 2020|

Fibre Channel SAN Workloads Q&A

“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 [...]

Jordan Grote2020-03-05T15:11:26-06:00March 5th, 2020|

How Fibre Channel Standards Are Made, Part IV: INCITS T10, T11, and T13

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, [...]

Jordan Grote2020-02-07T15:39:12-06:00February 7th, 2020|

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Broadcom Unveils Industry’s First Gen 7 64Gb/s Fibre Channel Switching Platforms Enabling an Autonomous SAN

FCIA Announces Completion of the Fibre Channel-NVMe-2 Standard With Groundbreaking Features for Increased Reliability in the Data Center

How Fibre Channel Services Make Data Center Scalability Easy

FC-NVMe Q&A

Broadcom Delivers First-Ever NVMe over Fibre Channel In-Box Drivers for VMware ESXi 7.0

The Current State of NVMe over Fibre Channel

Fibre Channel Industry Association Elects 2020 Board of Directors as Data Center Trends Drive Fibre Channel Adoption

Here’s How Fibre Channel Standards are Made

Fibre Channel SAN Workloads Q&A

How Fibre Channel Standards Are Made, Part IV: INCITS T10, T11, and T13

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