When iSCSI-based storage arrays first appeared in 2003, the technology was touted as a low-cost, few-frills alternative to Fibre Channel, the reigning king of the block storage hill. But that ...

There is a lot of debate about Fibre Channel over Ethernet and converged network adapters. A CNA is a 10-GbE network interface card that supports multiple data networking protocols, basically TCP/IP ...

FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) is a storage protocol that enables Fibre Channel (FC) communications to run directly over Ethernet. FCoE makes it possible to move Fibre Channel traffic across ...

There’s been some buzz lately about a new storage networking protocol called Fibre Channel over Ethernet, a.k.a. FCoE. The major network vendors including Brocade, Cisco, Emulex, and QLogic are all on ...

Intel on Wednesday unveiled Open Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE), a new technology that makes it possible for data center Fibre Channel storage traffic to travel on 10 gigabit Ethernet networks.

Intel has eased the migration to a single network infrastructure throughout data centers by introducing Open FCOE, a free software stack for Fibre Channel Over Ethernet. The software stack had been in ...

So our lease is up on our storage systems, D2D target and Tape libraries and one of the things i am considering is whether we want to move up to FC for some of our services. (Exchange, maybe sql).

So, iSCSI vs. Fiber Channel SAN's. My basic understanding is that with a traditional FC SAN I buy a SAN controller and a disk array and connect the two. I buy a server(s) and buy a HBA for each server ...

The Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) bandwagon gathered steam last week at Storage Networking World as QLogic, NetApp and EMC introduced products that support the new transport protocol. NetApp ...