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Protocol wars: Can Fibre Channel survive Ethernet's assault?

Posted May 2, 2012 - 12:17 pm

Expensive and specialized Fibre Channel SANs have been under assault as companies consolidate data traffic over Ethernet. With Fibre Channel disks already largely eliminated from the market by SAS, can networking gear be far behind?
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The fine art of Fibre Channel troubleshooting

Posted January 25, 2012 - 6:25 pm

Troubleshooting Fibre Channel networks can be as much an art as it is a science, but there are some basic best practices you can follow to reduce the guessing and speed resolution. Here are 10 tips to help you get to the bottom of pesky problems.
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EMC: Flash could spell doom for Fibre Channel

Posted March 3, 2010 - 2:54 pm

Fibre Channel storage could be a thing of the past in just a few years as enterprises increase adoption of flash memory for I/O-intensive applications, while storing less-frequently used data on inexpensive SATA drives.
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Does a switch deal equal trouble in HP, Cisco's relationship

Posted February 22, 2010 - 2:20 pm

Hewlett-Packard Co. today disclosed that it has begun selling stackable QLogic Corp.-developed 8Gbit/sec Fibre Channel switches that are targeted for use at remote offices and corporate departments.
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HP resells QLogic edge switches; is Cisco relationship cooling?

Posted February 18, 2010 - 4:12 pm

HP announced today it is reselling QLogic's 8Gbit/sec stackable edge Fibre Channel switches as part of its StorageWorks line of products, a move some say may indicate a cooling between HP and another partner, Cisco.
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Compellent Storage Center 4.0: Fully-integrated, full-featured 4Gbps Fibre Channel system

Posted October 5, 2009 - 1:37 pm

Compellent's Storage Center 4.0 offers ease of use, a great feature set, and excellent performance at a good price for a 4Gbps Fibre Channel system. Support and phone-home maintenance is also excellent.
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Promise vTrak/Datacore SANMelody: DIY option for Fibre Channel or iSCSI

Posted October 5, 2009 - 1:26 pm

This is a build-it-yourself look at what can be done on a tight budget. The Promise vTrak E610f is a 16-drive enclosure that includes two 4Gbps Fibre Channel RAID controllers that offers RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1 (or 10), 5, 6 (double parity drive), 50 (two mirrored RAID 5 volumes) or 60.
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Remaking the data center

Posted September 18, 2009 - 9:26 pm

A major transformation is sweeping over data center switching. Over the next few years the old switching equipment needs to be replaced with faster and more flexible switches.
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Emulex releases 8Gbit/sec. network adapter

Posted September 15, 2009 - 9:46 am

Emulex announced its latest Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) with four 8Gbit/sec. ports on a single board, doubling the capacity for its LightPulse HBAs.
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Fans and skeptics argue on Fibre Channel over Ethernet

Posted October 30, 2008 - 1:43 pm

The Storage Networking World Europe show focused on Fibre Channel over Ethernet, which some see as a Trojan horse that Cisco can use to attack Brocade.
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