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The State of Fibre Channel

Posted on June 10, 2019 by George Crump

Potentially the only technology pronounced dead more often than Fibre Channel is tape, yet both are alive and well. In 2018, the Fibre Channel (FC) market saw a return to growth. According to Dell’Oro Group, FC SAN port shipments were…

Meet the President of the Fibre Channel Industry Association: Mark Jones

Posted on June 5, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Against the backdrop of Moore’s Law and ultra-low latency non-volatile memory express (NVMe) solid state drives, network speed and total capacity are increasingly the levers that make or break an application’s performance. Fibre Channel (FC) storage networking may be frequently…

Chalk Talk Video – The Software Defined Data Center Needs Next Generation Storage Networks

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

As we discuss in our video “Fibre Channel – The Next Generation,” organizations are moving beyond simple virtualization and into the software defined center. As a result, new requirements are being placed on the storage infrastructure. These data centers are…