“Fibre Channel is dead.” That was the controversial conclusion of one participant in a heated debate at an industry conference back in 2000. Industry vendors were investigating a new protocol – ...

Data access speeds for enterprise applications are becoming more critical; as is the need to support evolving storage requirements, which in turn is driving the ...

FCoE allows Fibre Channel SANs and devices to connect to each other over Ethernet-based networks and share data without modifying the existing storage infrastructure. This allows the building of ...

Will fiber consolidation help or hinder border-to-border broadband access? And will business and residential customers benefit?

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of “Storage Area Network Fundamentals” (ISBN 158705065X ) published courtesy of Cisco Press. With the growing popularity of storage area networks (SANs), ...

FALL BRANCH, Tenn. (WJHL) — BrightRidge placed the first of four new fiber network cabinets in Fall Branch to provide high-speed broadband to residents, the company announced Tuesday. The project, ...

While it’s a fact that most storage is still attached directly to the server that accesses it, is also true that storage continues to move at a steady pace onto the network. In all but the smallest IT ...