As the volume and criticality of data grow, companies need efficient, scalable solutions for making data available to servers, applications, and users across the enterprise. By providing a network of storage resources to servers, Fibre Channel SANs uncouple storage from individual platforms, allowing data transfer among all nodes on the storage network.

In this issue:

  • Following the FCIA Roadmap to Success
  • Positioning Storage Technologies in Data Centers
  • About Standards for Fibre Channel
  • FCoE I/O Convergence and Virtualization
  • Overview of TRILL
  • Achieving Network Convergence: Deploying FCoE into the Data Center
  • Implementing and Validating an FCoE Pilot