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Second Industry-Wide, Multi-Vendor Plugfest Focused on NVMe™ Over Fibre Channel Fabric Completed by Fibre Channel Industry Association

Event Also Signals First Validation of the Newly Completed INCITS T11 FC-NVMe Standard MINNEAPOLIS, December 13, 2017 – The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) today announced the completion of its second industry-wide multi-vendor plugfest focused on Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe™) over Fibre Channel (FC) Fabric and the first validation of the newly completed INCITS T11 [...]

fcia_admin2018-05-18T10:51:58-05:00December 13th, 2017|

Live Webcast: FCIP (Extension): Data Protection and Business Continuity

Businesses today rely heavily on their data. Transporting data over significant distance beyond the reach of a threatening event preserves data so organizations can rapidly recover in the event of a site going down. This makes deploying a disaster recovery infrastructure between data centers with fast, continuous, and easy replication of mission-critical data to anywhere in [...]

fcia_admin2018-05-18T10:52:45-05:00October 26th, 2017|

Advanced FC-NVMe Q&A

Experts Answer Questions on All Things FC-NVMe FC-NVMe (NVMe over Fibre Channel) is preparing for its official launch, there have been numerous questions about how the technology works, how it gets implemented, and what makes it special when compared to traditional, SCSI-based Fibre Channel. That’s why the FCIA hosted a live webcast, “Deep Dive [...]

fcia_admin2018-05-18T10:53:28-05:00October 19th, 2017|

Understanding Long-Distance Fibre Channel

As people learn more about Fibre Channel and are curious about NVMe over Fibre Channel (FC-NVMe), questions arise around how storage solutions are going to be affected by the new technology. Perhaps the least understood aspect of storage networks involves distance solutions, and so FCIA has decided to tackle this issue next with a live [...]

fcia_admin2017-09-12T15:51:28-05:00September 12th, 2017|

Fibre Channel 101 Q&A

Many people don’t actually understand how Fibre Channel (FC) works. That’s why we hosted the FCIA webcast Fibre Channel Fundamentals. If you missed the live event, it’s available on-demand. Some great questions came up during the webcast and our experts have provided the answers here. Q: Do the ASICs in the switches that handle FC frames [...]

fcia_admin2017-08-14T11:57:18-05:00August 14th, 2017|

Take a Dive Deep into NVMe over Fibre Channel (FC-NVMe)

As FC-NVMe (NVMe over Fibre Channel) is preparing for its official launch, there have been numerous questions about how the technology works, how it gets implemented, and what makes it special when compared to traditional, SCSI-based Fibre Channel. Join our experts on August 29th for a live FCIA webcast “Deep Dive into NVMe over Fibre [...]

fcia_admin2017-08-14T11:42:31-05:00August 14th, 2017|

Fibre Channel-NVM Express® Specification Advanced by the Fibre Channel Industry Association

Visit FCIA Booth #828 at Flash Memory Summit to See a Live NVMe Over Fabrics Technology Demonstration Operated by Multiple Fibre Channel Vendors SANTA CLARA, Calif., Flash Memory Summit, August 7, 2017 – In a development that highlights the continued innovation of Fibre Channel technology, the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) today announced that the Fibre [...]

fcia_admin2017-08-07T14:42:55-05:00August 7th, 2017|

Industry’s First FC-NVMe Plugfest Demonstrates Fibre Channel as the Trusted Fabric for Transporting NVMe™ Natively in Today’s Datacenters

Gen 6 32GFC provides datacenters with greater consistency, predictability, performance and investment leverage to efficiently utilize all-flash, and now NVMe™ storage MINNEAPOLIS, May 31, 2017 – Building upon last year’s successful Non Volatile Memory Express (NVMe™) over Fibre Channel (FC) Fabric (FC-NVMe) proof of concept, the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) today announced the completion [...]

fcia_admin2017-08-30T10:04:20-05:00May 31st, 2017|

SANBlaze Announces New FC-NVMe Developers Test Solution

Enables rapid prototyping, qualification, and testing of large FC-NVMe configurations with minimal investment SANBlaze, a leading innovator in storage emulation, is announcing its new Non-Volatile Memory Express over Fibre Channel (FC-NVMe) Test Solution for early development. The SANBlaze FC-NVMe Emulation Solution, for both System Host and Device test environments, features integrated Cavium QLogic HBAs and [...]

fcia_admin2017-05-26T10:49:18-05:00May 26th, 2017|

Fibre Channel 101

Fibre Channel (FC) is the storage networking protocol for enterprise data centers, with over 11 Million ports deployed. Fibre Channel is purpose-built and engineered to meet the demands for enterprise data centers that require rock solid reliability, high performance and scalability. It can even transport new storage protocols, like NVMe, natively. Flexible and resilient, Fibre Channel provides [...]

fcia_admin2017-05-26T10:50:58-05:00May 9th, 2017|

Second Industry-Wide, Multi-Vendor Plugfest Focused on NVMe™ Over Fibre Channel Fabric Completed by Fibre Channel Industry Association

Live Webcast: FCIP (Extension): Data Protection and Business Continuity

Advanced FC-NVMe Q&A

Understanding Long-Distance Fibre Channel

Fibre Channel 101 Q&A

Take a Dive Deep into NVMe over Fibre Channel (FC-NVMe)

Fibre Channel-NVM Express® Specification Advanced by the Fibre Channel Industry Association

Industry’s First FC-NVMe Plugfest Demonstrates Fibre Channel as the Trusted Fabric for Transporting NVMe™ Natively in Today’s Datacenters

SANBlaze Announces New FC-NVMe Developers Test Solution

Fibre Channel 101

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