Hewlett-Packard (HP) has bought Transoft Networks - a specialist in Fibre Channel-compatible Storage Area Networking (SAN) equipment. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but HP said Transoft's technology will give its existing SAN...
Data General's Clariion division has announced a Fibre Channel-based storage product aimed at SMEs. Joanne Masingill, VP Clariion marketing at DG, told Silicon.com: "Clariion Fibre disk arrays are the Volvos of the storage world - they just keep on...
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The FibreAlliance promotes open Fibre Channel management standards. SANs provide high-speed access to distributed storage via fibre channel (FC) technology. De facto standards will fail. Currently, the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA...
Fibre Channel (FC), the dominant communications technology for SANs, is increasingly under the strain of distance. The Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) standard has been around for nearly two years and it has already been proven to work over...
But McData has since faced increasing challenges because the Fibre Channel standard on which it relies for data transfer in storage area networks is seeing steep competition from iSCSI, an IP-based standard for linking data storage devices.