The Heart and Soul of Fibre Channel: Its Roadmap
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 [...]
Topology (Old Generation)
Storage Area Networking is a term used to describe one of the most popular uses of Fibre Channel. While the benefits of SAN have been long apparent, it was only with the advent of Fibre [...]
Fibre Channel Industry Association Elects 2014/15 Board of Directors
2014 milestones including the announcement of Gen 6 Fibre Channel demonstrate why enterprises continue to invest in Fibre Channel to power their most mission- and business-critical environments SAN FRANCISCO - December 8, 2014 -- The [...]
Data Center Connectivity Management Systems: A Critical Component for Enterprise IT
by John Amato, Vice President, Data Center Systems IT must support a growing number of applications and services running on a 24x7x365 basis and secure them against an array of constantly evolving cyber threats. Worse [...]
Latency: The Other Critical Storage Networking Metric
by Tim Lustig, Product Marketing Manager, Brocade Communications From a data storage perspective, the definition of latency is the time it takes for a data packet to travel from the initiator within the primary server to [...]
Why AOL, The Huffington Post, MapQuest and Moviefone Depend on Fibre Channel
by Mark Jones, Director Technical Marketing, Emulex and President, Fibre Channel Industry Association AOL offers services to over 24 million mail users and manages content and advertisement for 56 of the best known destination brand [...]