By Casey Quillin, Founder and Principal Analyst, Quillin Research Debates over the value of Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe™) seem to have faded a fair bit. The features and benefits are coming into better focus and enterprise’s interest in the potential of coercing every bit of performance (and value) out of their storage infrastructure is [...]
By Mark Jones, President, FCIA and Director of Technical Marketing, Broadcom Inc. Society is living through a difficult time. The crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic has left no one untouched, and the virus continues to claim human lives. We at the FCIA, wish all of our members, colleagues, and their families, good health and [...]
Data center networking continues to be a critical piece of the puzzle in designing technology solutions to solve complex business problems for customers. Customer data and secure access to this data with high availability, reliability and performance sounds like a simple set of requirements but continues to be challenging to deliver in the real world. [...]
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In this blog entry the references to the word funky are intended to imply something good in a quirky way. Because when we work with Fibre Channel, we find it to be a unique language filled with an abundance of acronyms that can be hard to translate. Let’s start with Fibre Channel itself which is [...]
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Tom Kolniak, Sr. Director of Marketing, ATTO Technology The choice between using Fibre Channel (FC) or other protocols is dictated by several factors, one of them being whether a dedicated SAN is required and/or desirable. Ethernet SANs are implemented in the context of a converged network or at the minimum sharing of switch ports [...]
Patty Driever, IBM Corporation, Howard Johnson, Broadcom Corporation Since its introduction in 1994, Fibre Channel has become well recognized as the leading technology choice for storage attachment - it delivers superior scale, reliability, dependability and manageability. That much is pretty obvious. What’s not so obvious is that in the late 1990s, when Fibre Channel [...]
Rupin Mohan, Director R&D and CTO Storage Networking, HPE The IT world is moving toward Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure. Customers in large numbers are choosing applications that need to be deployed on premise but need some interactions and/or compute/data mobility with the cloud. Most tech savvy IT managers are aware of pros and cons of [...]
Curt Beckmann, Broadcom Corporation The availability of the NVMe standard has radically changed the landscape for solid-state storage, driving commoditization of the media along with aggressive competition for density and performance. This media revolution is causing a secondary pair of disruptions in the storage array space. The first disruption is the move toward NVMe-based [...]
