At our recent live FCIA webinar, “Fibre Channel Data Center Interconnects: 64GFC and More,” attendees gave the presentation by Gene Cannella (Adtran), David Rodgers (EXFO) and Andy Adams (Adtran) a 4.9 rating! The detailed session provided an in-depth look at Fibre Channel Extension via Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) and Optical Transport Network (OTN), explaining [...]
Experts from the FCIA recently took a deep dive into the FC-NVMe protocol at our live webcast, “NVMe over FC: Deep Dive in Protocol, Architecture and Use Cases.” It was a fascinating technical discussion that attendees gave a 5-star rating. If you missed it, you can watch it on-demand on the FCIA YouTube Channel or [...]
The majority of today’s SAN infrastructures leverage the traditional SCSI/FCP protocol. The relatively new NVMe®/FC protocol has become ubiquitous in enterprise storage offerings, delivering multiple advantages, including high performance, low tail latency, and precision error recovery that can run on the same FC SAN infrastructure. Details on NVMe/FC will be the topic of our next [...]
At our recent FCIA webcast “Benefits of FC-NVMe for Containerized ML Models,” it was quite clear that NVMe over Fibre Channel reduces the training time for container Machine Learning/Deep Learning workloads, and the robust reliability, performance and full offload of Fibre Channel (FC) make it an ideal choice for AI/ML. The live session generated several [...]
By Chris Lyon, President, FCIA and Business Development Manager, Americas, Amphenol ICC Fibre Channel has come a long way since it was first approved as an ANSI standard in 1994 to become the trusted and reliable networking solution it is today that delivers the efficiency and speed necessary for storage to be networked and [...]
By Marc Angelinovich, Principal Product Marketing Manager, Broadcom Inc. For decades now, Fibre Channel has been the network of choice for storage when deploying critical applications like ERP to run highly complex and large organizations or financial applications at the largest banks and global stock exchanges. Reliability is the main reason why Fibre Channel [...]
By Rupin Mohan, FCIA Board of Directors and Director R&D, Chief Technologist (SAN), HPE SAN Fabric – Hmm…what is a Fabric? Does calling a Fibre Channel network a SAN Fabric matter? Please continue reading to find out why. When it comes to designing and deploying a storage network, it does. The fact of the [...]
By David J. Rodgers, FCIA Board Member and Sr. Program Manager, Storage Protocol Solutions, Teledyne LeCroy You purchased a new Fibre Channel storage system replete with the best new features and functions including support for your legacy implementation and equipment, and it sets the table for incorporating the new, higher speed connectivity and devices [...]
By Mark Jones, FCIA Board of Directors and Director of Technical Marketing, Broadcom Inc. With 2020 in the rearview mirror, we can see the impact the global pandemic has left on us all and the resulting changes to our everyday lives and the way we work. Even as we bring 2021 to a close, [...]
By Howard Johnson, FCIA Member, Technology Architect, Broadcom Automation, machine learning, DevOps and digital transformation are all the buzz of the modern IT infrastructure. Heralding advancements in capabilities and appearing seemingly everywhere with the promise of simplifying network operations; but what are these advancements really all about? To get an idea of “how stuff [...]
