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 ...

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 ...

Internet Storage Name Service brings the plug-and-play capabilities of Fibre Channel to IP storage networks Internet Storage Name Service brings the plug-and-play capabilities of Fibre Channel to IP ...

In the past 10 years, Ethernet-based local area networks (LANs) have progressed a great deal, particularly in their data throughput capabilities. Most data communications functions take place on ...

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 ...

The 8000 series converged network adapters (CNAs) from QLogic Corporation aren’t just new network interface cards (NICs) or host bus adapters (HBAs). Instead, they’re the first CNAs to allow the Fibre ...

Brocade Communications Systems Inc.'s August offer to acquire McData Corp. marks one of the last consolidation moves in the formerly crowded field of Fibre Channel switching. One popular conclusion ...

Since the early 2000s, the storage industry has been at pains to develop an alternative to Fibre Channel for storage networks based on Ethernet and IP, which became known as "IP storage." Well known ...

Storage-area networks (SANs), which connect multiple servers to multiple storage devices, are gaining acceptance among government agencies for their flexibility and affordability. From disk arrays to ...

One of the keys to moving large files on a network is to move the data in large blocks without a lot of header information in between. As the computer world moved from mainframe computing to the ...

A growing number of government agencies are looking to stretch the reach of their Fibre Channel-based storage-area networks (SANs). "After [Sept. 11, 2001], many government agencies started to look ...

Accelerating design and development of next-gen storage devices, the 1736 module embarks as the industry’s only dual-purpose SAN tester and protocol analyzer for 8 Gb/s Fibre Channel. The module ...