“Fibre Channel is dead.” That was the controversial conclusion of one participant in a heated debate at an industry conference back in 2000. Industry vendors were investigating a new protocol – ...

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of “Storage Area Network Fundamentals” (ISBN 158705065X ) published courtesy of Cisco Press. With the growing popularity of storage area networks (SANs), ...

IBM last week followed HP with the introduction of Fibre Channel storage-area network blades for its eServer BladeCenter servers. The company, however, trumped HP by introducing two versions of Fibre ...

James Nardi oversees hundreds of terabytes of data. Sometimes, the disks that it all resides on get hammered more than 10,000 times a second. Sometimes, they get requests only once in a blue moon. “We ...

HP this week is unveiling new hybrid hard drives that combine Fibre Channel and ATA technologies. Dubbed Fibre Attached Technology Adapted, or FATA, the new drives are aimed at dropping the cost of ...

The new technology will allow the Fibre Channel storage protocol to take advantage of 10Gigabit Ethernet networks, simplifying cabling and reducing server heat Storage vendors hyped up-and-coming ...

Aimed at the optical links existing in host bus adapters (HBAs), switches, and RAID modules, the TXN31015 and TXN31115 optical transceivers support the 4-Gbit/s Fibre Channel specification. The ...

Aliso Viejo-based QLogic Corp. grew its market share lead in the first quarter over rival Emulex Corp. in Costa Mesa in fibre-channel adapters, a key segment of networking electronics. Fibre-channel ...

IBM today increased its support of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) by agreeing to sell FCoE switches and adapters from Brocade Communications Systems Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. IBM is re-branding ...

VeEX Inc., a global leader in innovative test and measurement solutions for next-generation networks, has introduced what is says is the industry’s first remote Optical Test Tool (OTT) designed to ...

Dycom Industries' historical financial results have demonstrated strong financial performance, with robust top-line growth and expanding profit margins. Looking ahead, the number of US homes with ...

Despite its proximity to the most prosperous parts of the UK, the South of England in general has been long underserved by legacy networks. Looking to improve broadband availability and connectivity ...