Today, there are a variety of architectures, fabrics, and protocols that can be utilized for Storage Area Networks (SANs). Because of this, the challenges in choosing the right approach, fabric, and protocol to optimize application performance are not trivial, nor are all the tradeoffs obvious when making such as choice. The choice of a [...]
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
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
Also Expands Gen 5 Fibre Channel Portfolio With Industry's Highest-Density Fixed Port SAN Switch and Enhanced Management Software; Announces Plans for Gen 6 Fibre Channel Technology Supporting the Next-Generation Standard SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - Mar 25, 2013) - Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD), the leader in fabric-based data center networking solutions, today announced Brocade® Fabric Vision™ technology, [...]
The fundamental problem that SANs solve is how to connect terabytes of information to hundreds of servers reliably. Directly attached storage works well for a few servers with a few hundred gigabytes of storage, but the complexity of managing and backing up terabytes of captive storage is a nightmare. With exponential storage growth, IT staff [...]
