Finisar Corp. has announced the industry's first comprehensive 8 Gb/s Fibre Channel (FC) test solution designed specifically for development and testing of advanced storage systems. The Xgig 8 Gb/s FC ...

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 ...

Storage networking hardware includes three basic components: host adapters, storage targets and switch interconnects. In traditional SANs, these basic building blocks have been based on Fibre Channel ...

James Nardi oversees hundreds of terabytes of data. Sometimes, the disks that it all resides on get hammered more than 10,000 times a second. Sometimes, they get requests only once in a blue moon. “We ...

“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 – ...

Santa Clara, CA—Computer Access Technology Corporation (CATC), a leading communications protocol expert company, announces the availability of its 4 Gbps Fibre Channel expert analysis system, the ...

Although less than a decade old, iSCSI storage is already the prevailing choice for small and medium-sized businesses, as well as large companies looking to milk their existing Fibre Channel storage ...

Targeting military applications, the FC-75000 dual-channel Fibre Channel network interface controllers (NICs) operate at speeds up to 2 Gb/s and are conduction cooled for use at temperatures from ...

Ten Gigabit Ethernet — the latest and fastest version of the ubiquitous data networking protocol — is also coming to the networks that link storage arrays to each other and to servers. Questions yet ...