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...
It uses a 2-gigabit Fibre Channel connection to send and receive data. So far, Dell has done the best with network-attached storage, which is less specialized, less expensive and fits better with the company's business model, Webster said.
In a research note, Meta Group notes the take off of storage area networks (SANs) - servers accessing disk-based resources using the Fibre Channel protocol over dedicated networks - is driving some of this increase.
SAN provides a dedicated high-speed storage network, commonly used for back-up within organisations, and is based on a standard called Fibre Channel. Interestingly, users are looking at adopting iSCSI for SANs.iSCSI allows SANs to use IP networks...
Another key to SANs' speed is the use of the Fibre Channel interface, a technology that allows for data transfers at a rate of 2Gbps. Then you've got Ethernet on the same playing field as Fibre Channel," he said.
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...