Ever since the emergence of Fibre Channel SANs in the late 1990s, enterprise IT managers have maintained two sets of networks, one for storage I/O traffic and the other for data network traffic. But ...

Organizations running standalone Fibre Channel-based Storage Area Networks may be able to reduce the amount of cabling snaking through their datacenters, thanks to an emerging converged network ...

For years, I’ve heard people talk about the fact that Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is a technology that only Cisco is pushing or that it is a push by a dying Fibre Channel (FC) industry to ...

Cisco has refreshed its datacentre fabric, pushing out a comprehensive update that brings end-to-end Fibre Channel over Ethernet connectivity to the networking company's core switching and ...

Assuming a new deployment that is capable of running FCoE - NetApp filer with UTA ports in 10GbE mode, ESXi hosts with Intel X520 adapters and a pair of Juniper EX4550 switches - what advantages are ...

Broadcom’s first processor for FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) is now coming on the market in network adapters qualified by EMC, backed by claims it is 80 percent faster than any other FCoE ...

It’s highly likely that, if you follow the comings and goings of storage networking technology, then by now you’ve at least heard of the emerging Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) standard working ...

There is a lot of debate about Fibre Channel over Ethernet and converged network adapters. A CNA is a 10-GbE network interface card that supports multiple data networking protocols, basically TCP/IP ...

While Fiber Channel over Ethernet might not be everyone's cup of tea, Intel hopes to make it a more universal technology in shops that currently need to support fiber channel, by giving away their ...

FCoE adoption is getting ready to pick up steam. That's my take from Storage Networking World (SNW). The FCoE sessions and labs seemed well attended. This means that users are getting ready to deploy ...

It does have a lot of potential, yet CRN Test Center reviewers ran into a hiccup during a remote test of an FCoE solution. Overall, though, we liked what we saw. First, some background: The key idea ...