Author: Nishant Lodha, Product Marketing, QLogic Corp The Evolution of Disk and Fabric Ever since IBM shipped the world’s first hard disk drive (HDD), the RAMAC 305 in 1956, persistent storage technology has steadily evolved. In the early 1990s, various manufacturers introduced storage devices known today as flash-based or dynamic random access memory (DRAM)-based solid [...]
J Metz, R&D Engineer, Cisco Storage is hard. Well, doing storage right is hard. In fact, it’s more than just hard – it’s extremely difficult. Why? Because storage is the one part of the data center that is absolutely unforgiving. When you lose data, you don’t just lose a bit or a byte, you lose [...]
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2015 milestones include the continued development of Gen 6 Fibre Channel, the world’s fastest storage networking, with commercial products expected in 2016 LAS VEGAS, STORAGE VISIONS, January 5, 2016 — Coinciding with the sixteenth annual Storage Visions Conference at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas, the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) today announced the release [...]
Scott Kipp is the Principal Hardware Engineer for Brocade. The heart and soul of any technology, and the industry association that stewards the technology, is its technology roadmap. Just like the term suggests, a roadmap tells the story of a technology. It is a guide to where it has been, where it is , [...]
