Author: Nishant Lodha, Product Marketing, QLogic Corp The Evolution of Disk and Fabric Ever since IBM shipped the world’s first hard disk drive (HDD), the RAMAC 305 in 1956, persistent storage technology has steadily evolved. In the early 1990s, various manufacturers introduced storage devices known today as flash-based or dynamic random access memory (DRAM)-based solid [...]
J Metz, R&D Engineer, Cisco Storage is hard. Well, doing storage right is hard. In fact, it’s more than just hard – it’s extremely difficult. Why? Because storage is the one part of the data center that is absolutely unforgiving. When you lose data, you don’t just lose a bit or a byte, you lose [...]
Visit FCIA Booth #828 to see multiple vendor FC-NVMe initiator and target interface operations and FC Fabric connectivity to NVMe PCI Express-based drives SANTA CLARA, Calif., Flash Memory Summit, August 9, 2016 – Highlighting the adaptive architecture of Fibre Channel that according to market research firm Dell’Oro, has more than 46 million installed ports in operation [...]
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Fibre Channel is a storage networking technology best suited to unleash the potential of flash storage systems. Summary Data access speeds for enterprise applications are becoming more critical; as is the need to support real-time business requirements, which in turn is driving the deployment of flash for tier-I storage. In order for enterprise data centers [...]
Fibre Channel is positioned to support virtualized, all flash, and cloud data center environments. Summary In a turbulent computing era that is being redefined by highly virtualized environments, solid state storage and cloud-based architectures, unprecedented advancements in storage networks are needed to respond to the IO strains of increased complexity. In order for enterprise data [...]
Explains the bandwidth, I/O, deterministic connectivity, and management advantages of Fibre Channel used with server virtualization. Download PDF
When Rackspace needed efficiency and reliability in their data centers, they turned to Fibre Channel SANs. Summary When Rackspace, an industry leader in enterprise-class hybrid cloud infrastructures, sought to increase the capability, efficiency and reliability of their data centers, they turned to the purpose-built storage solution—Fibre Channel. Download PDF
One of the world’s largest software companies needed secure and consistently high-performance storage for their business-critical data. Fibre Channel SANs met their requirements. Summary When Symantec, a world leader in consumer and data protection, was looking to secure and provide consistent access to business-critical data, a top requirement was to accommodate for the company's future [...]
Find out how AOL uses Fibre Channel to create the most reliable storage solution. Summary When AOL, a leading global Web services and content provider, was looking for the most reliable storage solution to provide content to over 24 million mail users and 56 of the best known brand websites, they standardized on the trusted [...]
