by Mark Jones, Director Technical Marketing, Emulex and President, Fibre Channel Industry Association AOL offers services to over 24 million mail users and manages content and advertisement for 56 of the best known destination brand websites - such as The Huffington Post, Moviefone and MapQuest. When the company was looking for the most reliable storage [...]
by: Tim Lustig, Product Marketing Manager, Brocade Communications Fibre Channel proves it offers superior value and consistently demonstrates why it's the purpose-built storage solution you can trust. Look no further than Symantec for a prime example. Symantec specializes in information protection and operates a network that spans scores of secure, interconnected data centers across five [...]
by: Mark Jones, President of FCIA, Director, Technical Marketing, Emulex Corp. Data access speeds for enterprise applications are becoming more critical; as is the need to support evolving storage requirements, which in turn is driving the deployment of Flash for tier-I storage. In order for enterprise data centers to keep pace with data-intensive workloads, the [...]
by Rupin Mohan, Marketing Chairman, Fibre Channel Industry Association and Senior Member, Technology Strategy, Hewlett Packard The T11 standards bodies have been working diligently over the past two years to codify the Fibre Channel Backbone 6 (FC-BB-6) standard. One of the principal developments in its predecessor, FC-BB-5, was the concept of the "Fibre Channel Forwarder," [...]
by Scott Shimomura, Director, SAN Product Marketing, Brocade With a portfolio of major motion pictures including Spiderman 3D, Alice in Wonderland, Transformers and Pirates of the Caribbean, Legend3D's digital media technology and visual effects are, shall we say ─ legendary. The company is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA with a production studio in India and a [...]
Founded in San Antonio in 1998, Rackspace's operations have now expanded to include nine data centers across four continents. In Part One of this two part blog, we learned that when Rackspace sought to increase the capability, efficiency and reliability of their data centers, they turned to the purpose-built storage solution-- Fibre Channel. Now we'll [...]
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. They were in good company, joining industry leading enterprises such as AOL, Symantec and Legend3D, who also turned to Fibre Channel as their trusted [...]
by: Tim Lustig, Product Marketing Manager, Brocade Communications 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 centers to keep pace, the right network [...]
by Mark Jones | director, technical marketing, Emulex, and president of the Fibre Channel Industry Association When the FCIA (Fibre Channel Industry Association) announced in late 2013 that the INCITS T11 standards committee completed the physical specification for the next generation of Fibre Channel (FC) products, 32GFC became the fastest serial lane technology designed for [...]
by Tim Lustig | Product Marketing Manager, Brocade Communications For almost 20 years I've been involved with Fibre Channel, initially starting when Fibre Channel was only 531.25 Mbit/sec or "half speed." A lot has transpired since then, including an infamous white Bronco low-speed chase on LA freeways in 1994, the dot-com bubble bursting in 2000, [...]
