Fibre Channel is the king of enterprise storage-area-network technologies. ISCSI, however, is the heir apparent. When it comes to new SANs, add-ons to existing systems or departmental-level ...

In 1897 the great American author, Mark Twain was rumored to have stated, “the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”. In the tech industry, Fibre Channel could make the same statement. It seems ...

Although Fibre Channel has been around for a while, it's just now starting to be accepted within the enterprise. As such, there are still many IT pros who don't understand Fibre Channel. In this ...

Storage networking vendors announced 16Gb Fibre Channel adapters and switches as early as 2011. When the FCIA (Fibre Channel Industry Association) announced in late 2013 that the INCITS T11 standards ...

The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) created the “Trusted Foundation,” an initiative designed to raise awareness to current and potential users of storage networking about why Fibre Channel ...

In a previous blog post, I wrote about how Ethernet Storage Fabric (ESF) is the logical choice as the next-generation storage network because of its superior performance, intelligence, and efficiency.

Routing multiple serial signals can be a daunting task during the development of fibre channel systems. Fortunately, digitalrepeaters and retimer ICs can clean up signals and counteract jitter in ...

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 ...

Converged network adapters (CNAs) are server hardware adapters that combine data transfer functionality normally provided by traditional network cards with storage host bus adapter (HBA) capability.

A high-speed transport technology used to build storage area networks (SANs). Although Fibre Channel can be used as a general-purpose network carrying ATM, IP and other protocols, it has been ...

While the Mac Pro was expected to be the first machine to launch with the new Thunderbolt 2 standard announced by Intel earlier this year, Apple just unveiled its updated MacBook Pro this week that ...