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...
That is the overriding finding of research commissioned by the Storage Networking Industry Association's European arm (SNIA-E), the industry body that has worked to define virtualisation, best summarised as the pooling data from disparate devices...
The system can be purchased with between two and 32 processors and with as many as 62 PCI-X slots for plugging in high-bandwidth devices such as Fibre Channel or gigabit Ethernet network cards. SGI has unveiled its Origin 350 Unix server, a...
Fibre Channel (FC), the dominant communications technology for SANs, is increasingly under the strain of distance. Until recently, Fibre Channel has been the only networking technology ideally suited to storage, with speeds between processors and...
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.
Did you find this white paper useful? 
White Paper RSS
Download
Register
