“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 – ...

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), ...

The FC-75162 Fibre Channel network access controller PMC card targets data management in laboratory, avionics maintenance, and testing and simulation applications. The dual-channel air-cooled card is ...

Fiber deep means bringing fiber deeper into the network, and thus closer to the customers, than it is in a non fiber deep architecture. Fiber deep solves a lot of the problems mentioned above by ...

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 ...