Fibre Channel is the choice for resilient storage networks due to its reliability and robust set of management capabilities. Mainframe computers that run the world’s financial systems, high speed transactions processing, fraud protection, and reservation systems rely on Fibre Channel because it provides performance and reliability these systems demand for 24/7 availability. Mainframe systems [...]
Today's Fibre Channel SANs are tasked with reliably delivering huge amounts of data with almost zero latency in an environment with a large variance of end device capabilities. Fibre Channel is a lossless network protocol, but what are the ramifications? What is considered a good SAN design and what are best practices? What situations can [...]
The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) completed a second industry-wide multi-vendor plugfest. The event offered the first official NVMe Over Fabrics compliance and interoperability transport layer testing for Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) and Fibre ... READ MORE
Common sense indicates FC-NVMe will be great for existing fiber channel SAN users. It will basically be an automatic upgrade as customers gradually cycle out storage networking older components, FCIA president Mark Jones explained. READ MORE
NVMe offers to unleash performance potential of flash storage that is held back by spinning disk-era SAS and SATA protocols. NVMe over fabrics takes the built-for-flash advantages of the PCIe-based protocol, and allows NVMe to be sent via Fibre Channel, Ethernet and Infiniband networks. READ MORE
The FCIA roadmap lists the 16GFC line rate at 14.025 Gbaud and the bidirectional throughput at 3,200 megabytes per second, or a single-direction throughput ... NVMeover Fabrics is expected to be another key technology to enable higher performance and lower latency in FC SANs equipped with NAND . . . READ MORE
A rapidly growing number of storage protocols and interfaces are helping storage networking technology avoid data center bottlenecks. Storage networking technology is changing, and speed is the name of the game. The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) offers a public roadmap that provides information on new speeds, guidance in cable and connector selection ... [...]
Scott Kipp, director of Engineering, Brocade and Chair of the Fibre Channel and Ethernet Roadmap subcommittees presented at the FCIA "Beer and Pizza" night April 5, 2016. The crowd had fun matching up industry milestones with the timing of pop music releases. What popular boy band hit it big in 2000, the same year Fibre [...]
by John Amato, Vice President, Data Center Systems IT must support a growing number of applications and services running on a 24x7x365 basis and secure them against an array of constantly evolving cyber threats. Worse yet, IT organizations aren't being resourced in proportion to their growing challenges, so it all must be done with unprecedented [...]
by Tim Lustig, Product Marketing Manager, Brocade Communications From a data storage perspective, the definition of latency is the time it takes for a data packet to travel from the initiator within the primary server to the target device. Excessive latency can be particularly threatening to a storage environment because it creates a bottleneck that can [...]
