Storage networking hardware includes three basic components: host adapters, storage targets and switch interconnects. In traditional SANs, these basic building blocks have been based on Fibre Channel ...

Broadcom has launched its first Fibre Channel Gen7 storage switches, which allow array-server connectivity at 64Gbps, which is double the performance of Gen6. The new switches – the Brocade G720 and ...

In a quickly changing distributed data center environment where wholesale server consolidation is rapidly occurring and where storage capacity is out of control, IT administrators need to be able to ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Included in that list was a stealth company set up by Cisco and destined to be acquired by its parent. The FCoE technology has been in development by leading networking and storage companies for about ...

Brocade Communications Systems Inc. today announced that it has increased the port count on the blades used in its Fibre Channel backbone switch by 33%. The storage networking vendor said it has ...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- Fibre Channel networking sales increased 6% in calendar-year 2025, as enterprise customers continued to invest in this technology to support their ...

Costa Mesa, Calif.—Emulex Corp. introduced a family of embedded storage switches named InSpeed that enables complete speed flexibility across Fibre Channel storage system back-ends. The InSpeed SOC ...

In 1897 the great American author, Mark Twain was rumored to have stated, “the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”. In the tech industry, Fibre Channel could make the same statement. It seems ...

Switches are used to segregate network traffic, ensuring that data on one network segment is only passed to the segment that leads to an intended destination. This helps to organise the network and ...

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 ...

There's a project underway to change some back end infrastructure between two datacenters, and a third party is now providing a managed fibre channel backhaul between the them. I tried utilising them ...