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 [...]
First to market with complete Ethernet and Fibre Channel test tools that simplify deployment and troubleshooting of latest high-speed datacenter interconnections. MILPITAS, Calif., Aug. 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Teledyne LeCroy, the worldwide leader in protocol test solutions, is pleased to announce the latest in high speed Ethernet and Fibre Channel test tools, the SierraNet M648 protocol [...]
Following on from the highly-rated FICON 101 webcast. Patty Driever of IBM and Howard Johnson of Broadcom returned for a FICON 201 course which provided a deeper dive into how FICON maps onto the Fibre Channel FC-2 layer, the evolution of the FICON protocol optimizations and how FICON adapts to new technologies. To help you [...]
In our Fibre Channel Zoning Basics webcast last month, FCIA experts Ed Mazurek and John Rodrigues, explained how and why zoning makes Fibre Channel so reliable, predictable and secure. If you missed the live presentation, you can watch it on-demand. As promised during the webcast, here are answers to the questions we received: Q: For [...]
