By Chris Lyon, Amphenol CS Standards & Technology Group and FCIA Chairman. The technology landscape is continuously evolving with ever-growing demands for faster data access, storage, and transmission. One of the latest advancements in this domain is the introduction of the 128GFC (128 Gigabit Fibre Channel), often called Gen 8. Fibre Channel has long [...]
Barbara Porter – Product Marketing Manager, Broadcom Inc. Data breaches are becoming more frequent and more expensive. In industries categorized as critical infrastructure – health care, financial services, pharmaceutical, energy, transportation, and industrial – the losses are significantly higher than in other sectors. In 2024, the health care industry experienced the highest average data [...]
As data demands continue to grow exponentially, the need for robust and reliable high-speed data transport solutions is paramount. 64G Fibre Channel (64GFC) technology is becoming a critical tool in the arsenal of modern data centers, offering enhanced performance, scalability, and security. It’s powering shared storage arrays in large organizations, low-latency financial service transactions, [...]
By Howard Johnson, FCIA Member, INCITS/Fibre Channel chair, Broadcom Technology Architect I cannot wait for self-driving cars! I want to be able to hop in my car, say, “go to work,” and have it get me there safe and sound – under any circumstances. Yet, with all of the advancements from the likes of [...]
By Vikram Umachagi I ECD Technical Marketing and Performance Engineer, Broadcom Inc Technology Overview Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database In-memory databases have been around for a long time. They operate by managing data in random access memory (RAM) instead of the non-volatile storage that traditional relational database management system (RDBMS) databases rely on. An in-memory [...]
By Mark Jones, FCIA President Emeritus Happy Anniversary to the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) – 30 years and still going strong! For three decades, this nonprofit international organization of manufacturers, system integrators, developers, vendors, industry professionals, and end users has pioneered our fast, secure, and scalable protocol for server-to-storage and server-to-server networking. The [...]
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 [...]
