SANs provide high-speed access to distributed storage via Fibre Channel (FC) technology. As part of Clariion's efforts to be a major SAN player, the company will also embrace ecommerce to deal with customers who would usually receive its products...
The FibreAlliance promotes open Fibre Channel management standards. SANs provide high-speed access to distributed storage via fibre channel (FC) technology. The burgeoning market for Storage Area Networks (SAN) is being in killed at birth because...
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), the Fibre Channel Association and the FibreAlliance were all involved in the search for common ground. April saw another leading theme of the storage year, as silicon.com's guests argued over...
Paul Trowbridge, marketing director EMEA at Brocade, predicts that over the next one or two years Fibre Channel architecture will continue to prevail as SAN technology. Analysts are already predicting the end of the era dominated by Fibre Channel...
Traditionally, SANs are based on the Fibre Channel standard, however, using IP, as pioneered by Nishan - recently acquired by McData - and others such as Cisco, can stretch their usefulness beyond the traditional 10km.
Brocade's pending acquisition of McData marks another turn of events for the high-end SAN fibre switch maker. But McData has since faced increasing challenges because the Fibre Channel standard on which it relies for data transfer in storage area...