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 ...

Data access speeds for enterprise applications are becoming more critical; as is the need to support evolving storage requirements, which in turn is driving the ...

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 ...

Don’t know your Fibre Channel from your iSCSI? You’re not alone. Until recently, these sophisticated storage technologies have been the domain of large enterprises. However, the combination of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) created the “Trusted Foundation,” an initiative designed to raise awareness to current and potential users of storage networking about why Fibre Channel ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Converged network adapters (CNAs) are server hardware adapters that combine data transfer functionality normally provided by traditional network cards with storage host bus adapter (HBA) capability.