Although Fibre Channel has been around for a while, it's just now starting to be accepted within the enterprise. As such, there are still many IT pros who don't understand Fibre Channel. In this ...

“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 – ...

In this article, I will present information about the (current) Grand Poobah of magnetic storage: fibre channel. The specification for fibre channel was ANSI-approved in 1994. When you think of "fibre ...

Fibre Channel is the king of enterprise storage-area-network technologies. ISCSI, however, is the heir apparent. When it comes to new SANs, add-ons to existing systems or departmental-level ...

Ethernet has become the communication protocol of choice for much in-house as well as cloud storage. Ethernet is the basis for Network Attached Storage (NAS) storage file sharing capabilities and ...

What is FCIP, and what is it used for? Fibre Channel over IP, or FCIP, is a tunnelling protocol used to connect Fibre Channel (FC) switches over an IP network, enabling interconnection of remote ...

One of the keys to moving large files on a network is to move the data in large blocks without a lot of header information in between. As the computer world moved from mainframe computing to the ...

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 ...