By Barry Maskas, FCIA member and Senior Technical Staff, HPE In the world of information technology, companies investing in Fibre Channel (FC) SANs must ensure that they use products and product components that work interchangeably with other products from other companies. Having multiple suppliers is often considered essential for business continuity purposes. In other [...]
By Brandon Hoff, FCIA member, Principal Architect, Broadcom The good old days: when we talked about congestion but didn’t really see it in the wild. When we did, it was a big deal. We would sit down with the customer to work out a solution. By we, I mean the storage, server, HBA and [...]
By Craig Carlson, FCIA Board Member; Senior Technologist, Marvell Semiconductor Inc and Rupin Mohan, FCIA Board Member, Director R&D, CTO, HPE Storage Networking When companies invest in a technology, they want to know that they will get a return on their investment for years to come. Fibre Channel has had a very accurate roadmap [...]
By Casey Quillin, Founder and Principal Analyst, Quillin Research Debates over the value of Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe™) seem to have faded a fair bit. The features and benefits are coming into better focus and enterprise’s interest in the potential of coercing every bit of performance (and value) out of their storage infrastructure is [...]
By Mark Jones, President, FCIA and Director of Technical Marketing, Broadcom Inc. Society is living through a difficult time. The crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic has left no one untouched, and the virus continues to claim human lives. We at the FCIA, wish all of our members, colleagues, and their families, good health and [...]
Data center networking continues to be a critical piece of the puzzle in designing technology solutions to solve complex business problems for customers. Customer data and secure access to this data with high availability, reliability and performance sounds like a simple set of requirements but continues to be challenging to deliver in the real world. [...]
As we learn more about the standards process, it’s important to note that every organization has its own way of doing things. Fibre Channel, for instance, works under the guidance of INCITS. Who is INCITS? INCITS -- the Inter National Committee for Information Technology Standards – colloquially pronounced as “Insights” -- is the central U.S. [...]
This blog is part of a series. We encourage you to also read “How Fibre Channel Standards Are Made, Part I: What Are Standards?” and “How Fibre Channel Standards Are Made, Bonus I: Interaction Between Standards?” As we explore the subject of how Fibre Channel standards are made, one useful thing to know in the [...]
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Tom Kolniak, Sr. Director of Marketing, ATTO Technology The choice between using Fibre Channel (FC) or other protocols is dictated by several factors, one of them being whether a dedicated SAN is required and/or desirable. Ethernet SANs are implemented in the context of a converged network or at the minimum sharing of switch ports [...]
