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...
The SN5420 is a two-port box that sits between a LAN switch and SCSI or Fibre Channel storage systems. The Cisco SN5420 Storage Router implements the iSCSI protocol to extend access of Fibre Channel fabric and attached storage devices to a broad...
The PC giant took the lid off its storage strategy on Wednesday, saying it would provide industry standard SCSI and fibre channel technology across all markets. The programme is a Fibre Channel-based solution for NT and NetWare environments.
SANs provide high-speed access to distributed storage via fibre channel (FC) technology. The FibreAlliance promotes open Fibre Channel management standards. The burgeoning market for Storage Area Networks (SAN) is being in killed at birth because...
The storage industry has had doubts over the performance of storage over IP because storage networks primarily use the Fibre Channel protocol, which is fast and reliable but expensive and difficult to build.