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 ...

New technologies such as 10G bit/sec. Ethernet, iSCSI and InfiniBand have generated plenty of buzz in the network storage market over the past year. But the real action of late comes from a rather ...

Three proposals covering storage over Ethernet coexist in the Internet Engineering Task Force working group: Fibre Channel over Internet Protocol (FCIP), storage-area networks (SANs) that use Fibre ...

In the past 10 years, Ethernet-based local area networks (LANs) have progressed a great deal, particularly in their data throughput capabilities. Most data communications functions take place on ...

While 1/2Gbit Fibre Channels have foundapplications in SAN, the Fibre Channel industryis turning its eyes to 10Gbit networks. What will this evolution belike and how will it affect the type of ...

The 8000 series converged network adapters (CNAs) from QLogic Corporation aren’t just new network interface cards (NICs) or host bus adapters (HBAs). Instead, they’re the first CNAs to allow the Fibre ...

Storage-area networks (SANs), which connect multiple servers to multiple storage devices, are gaining acceptance among government agencies for their flexibility and affordability. From disk arrays to ...

“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 – ...

Brocade Communications Systems Inc.'s August offer to acquire McData Corp. marks one of the last consolidation moves in the formerly crowded field of Fibre Channel switching. One popular conclusion ...

A growing number of government agencies are looking to stretch the reach of their Fibre Channel-based storage-area networks (SANs). "After [Sept. 11, 2001], many government agencies started to look ...

Sprint, Hitachi Data Systems, and Cisco Systems have set up an experimental storage area network (SAN) that demonstrates a new, less expensive way of backing up storage data over long distances. The ...

Emulex HBAs by Broadcom Deliver More than Twice the Performance for Virtual Machines Running on ESXi 7.0 with NVMe over Fibre Channel SAN JOSE, Calif., April 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Broadcom Inc.