Sprint, Hitachi Data Systems, and Cisco Systems have set up an experimental storage area network (SAN) that demonstrates a new, less expensive way of backing up storage data over long distances. The ...

Leading networking vendors yesterday presented a new standards proposal for using the Fibre Channel protocol over Ethernet networks in order to attach the majority of lower-level data center servers ...

“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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cisco seeded that start-up, Andiamo Systems, in January 2001 as a developer of IP-based storage products but only early this year publicly announced its existence. The vendor expects to pay as much as ...

HP this week is unveiling new hybrid hard drives that combine Fibre Channel and ATA technologies. Dubbed Fibre Attached Technology Adapted, or FATA, the new drives are aimed at dropping the cost of ...

Fibre Channel intellectual property (IP) cores have been developed for FPGAs, with the cores presently optimized for Stratix, Stratix GX, Cyclone, and Hardcopy devices. Initial offerings include three ...

Networking, storage and virtualization vendors Cisco , NetApp, and VMware on Wednesday announced what they said is the first certified end-to-end Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) storage network for ...

Brocade’s purchase of Foundry will help it penetrate the Fibre Channel over Ethernet market. Brocade’s pending acquisition of Foundry Networks and its IP network technology will give Brocade a shot in ...