Ethernet will never completely replace Fibre Channel, they said – and they were right. Fibre Channel will always be faster, they said – and they were wrong. In fact, what they were wrong about was whether or not a war…
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ChalkTalk Video: VMworld Infrastructures – Fibre, IP Storage and the Cloud
The data center infrastructure is evolving. At the core is the Fibre Channel SAN, which is itself evolving gain speed and capabilities like 16Gbps bandwidth. Then there is the move toward next generation applications that often count on IP-based storage.…
Storage Infrastructure for a Data Center in Transition
Cisco July 2015 Briefing Note The enterprise data center is in transition, moving from a variety of scale-up applications and architectures to one where they scale-out. Scale-up designs are typically fibre channel based, where scale-out designs are usually IP based.…
In 2015 Storage is still all about the Network
Briefing Note: CISCO 2015 Product Announcement Summary As we enter 2015, IDC projects a 10X growth in virtual servers over the next five years, a 16X growth in data and a 4X growth in the use of flash based storage. The…
Tagged with: CISCO, FC, FCoE, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, Flash, NAS, Network, SAN, Unstructured data
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Picking The Next Storage Networking Protocol
The data center is under immense pressure to scale the infrastructure to support more virtual machines, more users per database and to deal with the capacity growth caused by big data. As they refresh their storage systems to address these…
Tagged with: CISCO, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Infrastructure, Scale, Storage Networking Protocol
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