October Meeting in Coeur d’Alene
Event Sponsors Topic: Ethernet Roadmap Update Speaker: Scott Kipp
Fibre Channel Industry Association Collaborating with NVM Express, Inc. to Define New Standard for Fabric-Based Solid-State Storage Devices
New INCITS T11 Committee Workgroup Formed to Enable Fibre Channel-based Solutions Using Future NVM Express Over Fabric Specification for Seamless Interoperability with Enterprise Storage Fabrics SAN FRANCISCO -- Sept. 18, 2014: The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) today announced a new workgroup within the INCITS T11 Committee that will align Fibre Channel fabric connectivity using [...]
Emulex Provides High Performance I/O for New Fujitsu PRIMERGY Servers
Connectivity Portfolio Delivers Accelerated Application Performance, Data Center Efficiency, Improved Intelligence and Includes Uniquely Flexible, Scalable DynamicLOM Architecture COSTA MESA, Calif., September 9, 2014 - Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, today announced it is delivering Ethernet and Fibre Channel (FC) connectivity solutions for the new Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX, TX, BX and CX [...]
Emulex I/O Connectivity Solutions Deliver Added Performance and Efficiency for New Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600/1600 v3 Product Family-based Servers
Accelerates Next Generation Workloads, Reduces Operational Expenditures, Improves System Efficiency for Enterprises, Telcos and Cloud Data Centers COSTA MESA, Calif., September 8, 2014 - Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, today announced that its OneConnect® family of Ethernet and Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) and LightPulse® Gen 5 (16Gb) Fibre Channel (FC) Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) are optimized [...]
32GFC – Long Live Fibre Channel!
by Mark Jones | director, technical marketing, Emulex, and president of the Fibre Channel Industry Association When the FCIA (Fibre Channel Industry Association) announced in late 2013 that the INCITS T11 standards committee completed the physical specification for the next generation of Fibre Channel (FC) products, 32GFC became the fastest serial lane technology designed for [...]
August Meeting in Anchorage
Event Sponsors Topic: Ethernet Roadmap Speaker: Scott Kipp
Fibre Channel Industry Association Announces Enhancements on Standard for Converged Data Center Storage Networks
T11 has completed work on Fibre Channel Backbone - 6 (FC-BB-6) standard, providing a boost to deployments of Fibre Channel over Ethernet converged storage networks SAN FRANCISCO - August 19, 2014 -- The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) today announced that the T11 Technical Committee made significant enhancements to the widely-adopted Fibre Channel Backbone - [...]
A Milestone Year for Fibre Channel
by Tim Lustig | Product Marketing Manager, Brocade Communications For almost 20 years I've been involved with Fibre Channel, initially starting when Fibre Channel was only 531.25 Mbit/sec or "half speed." A lot has transpired since then, including an infamous white Bronco low-speed chase on LA freeways in 1994, the dot-com bubble bursting in 2000, [...]
QLogic Recognized as Leading Brand in 16Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters
QLogic Sweeps All Six Fibre Channel HBA Brand Leader Categories in 2014 IT Brand Pulse Storage Survey ALISO VIEJO, Calif., July 17, 2014 - QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq: QLGC), the industry leader in Fibre Channel adapters, today announced that for the fifth consecutive year, QLogic has been recognized as the Market Leader in Fibre Channel host [...]
In Fibre Channel We Trust
by: Mark Jones, President of FCIA Noted author and motivational speaker Stephen R. Covey once wrote that "Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience." Mirroring people and relationships, trust also brings out the very best in IT. It is the [...]
