Scott Kipp, Broadcom Corporation When companies invest in a technology, they want to know that they will get a return on their investment for years to come. Fibre Channel has had a very accurate roadmap for over a decade and this document shows the past, present and future of the Fibre Channel physical layer. [...]
Mark Jones, FCIA President and Director of Technical Marketing, Broadcom Inc., ECD After more than 20 years in the marketplace, Fibre Channel (FC) continues to be the most trusted Storage Area Network (SAN) connectivity of choice in leading Data Centers. The ability to reliably store and retrieve a company’s most valuable asset, its data, [...]
By Rupin Mohan, Marketing Chairman, FCIA It’s 2018, and Fibre Channel continues to remain the dominant SAN fabric protocol in today’s data centers. Fibre Channel is deployed in 90 percent of the Fortune 1000 data centers in the world and 80 - 90 percent of all All-Flash storage arrays are connected to servers via [...]
Fibre Channel Solutions Guide 2018 Forword The Fibre Channel Roadmap Shared Storage with NVMeStorage Fabric Options with NVMe Improving High Throughput Applications Performance with Gen6 Fibre Channel Fibre Channel – The Most Trusted Fabric Delivers NVMeA Look at Fibre Channel’s Legacy – And Future Storage Forces Download PDF
It’s time to get back to fundamentals on Fibre Channel. So, that’s exactly what we plan to do at our next FCIA live webcast on June 27, 2019 “Fibre Channel Zoning Basics.” In this FCIA webinar, we’re going to be talking about one of the most fundamental and crucial aspects of the protocol and what [...]
FICON (Fibre Channel Connection) is an upper-level protocol supported by mainframe servers and attached enterprise-class storage controllers that utilize Fibre Channel as the underlying transport. Our FICON 101 webcast described some of the key characteristics of the mainframe and how FICON satisfies the demands placed on mainframes for reliable and efficient access to data. FCIA experts [...]
At our last live FCIA webcast “Will You Still Love Me When I Turn 64GFC” our expert speakers, Dean Wallace and Barry Maskas, provided a technical session on T11 standards which define 64GFC serial Fibre Channel. It was a deep dive into backwards speed auto-negotiation compatibility, compatible form factors, and more, while having some fun [...]
By Robert Friend and Nishant Lodha, Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Fibre Channel is a purpose-built and proven storage network designed to meet the demands of enterprise data centers that require high availability, low latency, extreme reliability and seamless scalability. Fibre Channel (FC) SANs are deployed in over 90% of Fortune 1000 customer data centers that [...]
By Joseph Kimpler, Strategic Alliances, ATTO Technology, Inc. Despite the push for Ethernet adoption in the Media and Entertainment industry, Fibre Channel storage network connectivity remains an essential enabler of today’s content creation and media workflows. As video resolution and frame rates continue to grow, so does Fibre Channel network storage within the Media [...]
By Craig Carlson, FCIA Board Member; Senior Technologist, Marvell Semiconductor Inc. When companies invest in a technology, they want to know that they will get a return on their investment for years to come. Fibre Channel has had a very accurate roadmap for over a decade, showing the past, present and future of the [...]
