Recently, the FCIA hosted a live webcast, “Data Center Scalability Made Easy with Fibre Channel Services” where our Fibre Channel experts, Barry Maskas of HPE, David Peterson of Broadcom and Kiran Ranabhor of Cisco provided context to the terminology and explanations on Fibre Channel Services, including device and topology discovery, zoning, security, clock synchronization and [...]
FCIA Announces Completion of the Fibre Channel-NVMe-2 Standard With Groundbreaking Features for Increased Reliability in the Data Center FC-NVMe-2 Includes Sequence Level Error Recovery Which Optimizes How Fibre Channel Transports NVM Express™ (NVMe) Natively in Today’s Datacenters MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., August 11, 2020 – The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) today announced the International Committee on [...]
In our most recent FCIA webcast, we asked “Is FC-NVMe Ready for Prime Time?” Of course, the answer was a resounding “Yes.” During the live event, our FCIA experts highlighted a snapshot of where the industry is with FC-NVMe, its key differentiators and the breadth of solutions available today. If you missed the live event [...]
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 [...]
Where are we today with NVMe over Fibre Channel (FC-NVMe) solutions? Find out on June 9, 2020 when the FICA hosts a live webcast, “Is FC-NVMe Ready for Prime Time?” The T11 specification for (FC-NVMe) was completed in 2018. Since that time, the FCIA has hosted numerous plugfests and products have been shipping now for years. [...]
Fibre Channel Industry Association Elects 2020 Board of Directors as Data Center Trends Drive Fibre Channel Adoption INCITS T11 Publishes Fibre Channel Physical Interface Standards, Speeding Development of 64GFC and Gen 7 Solutions for the Storage Area Networking Market MINNEAPOLIS, March 17, 2020 – Amidst an expanding market being driven by major data center trends, the [...]
It’s easy to take technology standards for granted, forgetting that they underpin the technology we use every day. Ever wonder how they actually are made? Join us on March 31st for our next FCIA live webcast, The Making of Fibre Channel Standards. In this webcast we’ll break down how the standard development process works, explain [...]
“Priceless” - that’s how one attendee described our recent FCIA webcast, “Fibre Channel SAN Workloads.” Our expert presenters, Barry Maskas, Nishant Lodha and Mark Jones, provided some great insights on how Fibre Channel delivers on reliability and performance for application workloads. If you missed it, it’s available to watch on-demand. As promised during the live [...]
As we promised in our last blog, “Who is INCITS,” we are now going to take a look at INCITS (International Committee for Information Technology Standards) groups in greater detail, including answering the extremely common question: What is the difference between T10, T11, and T13? And what happened to T12?! The three INCITS committees, T10, [...]
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 [...]
