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 ...

“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 – ...

In 2013 Fibre Channel achieved several significant milestones. Approximately 11M (10.97M) Fibre Channel ports shipped when you combine adapter and switch ports 1, not even counting target ports on ...

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 ...

Faster SANs are on the horizon as the next Fibre Channel specification, calling for 32G bps (bits per second), nears publication. Fibre Channel is the traditional interface for storage area networks ...

Cisco’s share in Fibre Channel networking fell 45% in the 1st quarter of this year, according to a Dell’Oro report, a move Dell’Oro says may have come about because of channel conflict. Cisco’s share ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is here now - at last that's according to Intel, which has thrown its weight behind and released code for a new FCoE initiative. Called Open FcoE, the plan is to ...

While iSCSI has been very successful and continues to grow, it is no secret that Fibre Channel remains largely undisplaced within large organizations. Given the potentially significant cost ...

Storage area networks are about to get a whole lot faster as the various components necessary to put together a 4-Gbps Fibre Channel SAN finally hits the market. Fibre Channel SANs currently run at 2 ...

Helping to push Fibre Channel technology forward, Infineon Technologies announced on Tuesday a Fibre Channel transceiver that transmits data at a rate of 4 gigabits per second. With the announcement, ...