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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StorageSwiss Top Articles of 2014 – Part 2
Every year we look at the articles and other content posted on StorageSwiss.com (this year over 800 pieces) to see which topics generated the most interest. As we mentioned in our blog counting down numbers 11-15, flash storage was one…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Flash, GRO, MLC, NAND Flash, RPO, RTO, SLC, SLO, SQL, SSD, Unstructured data, VRO
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
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
Posted in Video
Posted in Video
Fibre Channel vs. Ethernet – Should You Switch?
Depending on which study you read, fibre channel based storage area networks are the topology of choice for somewhere between 40% to 60% of the storage networks in production. The IT professionals that run these networks are besieged with marketing…
Tagged with: Brocade, Data center, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, Storage area network
Posted in Video
Posted in Video
The Democratization of FCoE
Let’s face it, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) has not been the roaring success that vendors hoped it would be. Why? Probably the number one reason is that it was too expensive. Users expected FCoE to be cheaper, much cheaper,…
Tagged with: Ethernet, FCoE, Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, Hardware, IBM, Intel, ISCSI, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Storage area network
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Seagate Delivers a Cloud-Ready Hard Drive
Content, especially large data objects like videos and pictures, is the storage ‘elephant in the room’ for cloud providers. It’s big and can be overwhelming for their traditional storage infrastructures. But it’s also manageable with the right strategy and the…
Tagged with: Cloud, Computer data storage, Ethernet, File server, Seagate, Solid-state drive
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
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