Fibre Channel (FC) SAN offers a high-performance, high-speed switched storage network using dedicated host, switch and storage hardware. Find the latest news and resources on this topic.
ISCSI vs. Fibre Channel SAN quiz LEARNING CENTER - The war is waging -- so say some storage professionals. What's your IQ when it comes to iSCSI and Fibre Channel protocols? Take our iSCSI vs. Fibre Channel SAN quiz and find out.
Brocade relaunches data center network monitoring service
SearchStorage.com | 02 Dec 2008 ARTICLE - Brocade upgrades the Network Monitoring Service to proactively monitor and troubleshoot its customers' data center networking environments.
Storage Decisions San Francisco 2008 Session Downloads
Storage Decisions | 24 Nov 2008 ARTICLE - Download all the sessions from the Storage Decisions San Francisco 2008 conference on topics including backup, SANs, storage virtualization, storage management and green storage.
FAQ guide: How Fibre Channel over Ethernet can consolidate networks
Submitted By: Greg Schulz | 10 Oct 2008 FAQ - Greg Schulz answers the questions he hears most often about FCoE, including when FCoE products will be available and how FCoE compares to iSCSI and 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
Learn all about iSCSI and Fibre Channel SANs
Submitted By: Stephen J. Bigelow | 15 Jan 2007 DATA STORAGE HANDBOOK - This handbook compares Fibre Channel SAN and iSCSI SAN technologies, provides tips on how to enhance iSCSI performance, and discusses how to make a SAN highly available.
SAN availability and reliability
Submitted By: Stephen J. Bigelow | 26 Sep 2007 DATA STORAGE HANDBOOK - This chapter outlines some of the techniques and tactics used to achieve high availability and redundancy in a SAN (FC or iSCSI).
Fibre Channel SAN switches tutorial
SearchStorage Editors | 08 Dec 2008 TUTORIAL - Learn all about Fibre Channel SAN switches with these articles on selecting the right switches and the best practices for managing FC switching environments.
Best practices for Fibre Channel switching environments
Carol Sliwa, Features Writer | 05 Dec 2008 TUTORIAL - To find the best switch for your Fibre Channel SAN, you'll need to determine the application throughput and I/O for sizing that SAN.
How to select a Fibre Channel switch for your SAN
Carol Sliwa, Features Writer | 01 Dec 2008 TUTORIAL - One of the key decision points for any organization building a SAN is which Fibre Channel switch to use to connect their servers and storage devices.
storage area network
02 Mar 2004 WORD - A storage area network (SAN) is a high-speed special-purpose network (or subnetwork) that interconnects different kinds of data storage devices with associated data servers on behalf of a larger network of users. Typically, a ...
Fibre Channel
15 May 2003 WORD - Fibre Channel is a technology for transmitting data between computer devices at data rates of up to 4 Gbps (and 10 Gbps in the near future). Fibre Channel is especially suited for connecting computer servers to shared ...
FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet)
06 Dec 2007 WORD - FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) is a proposed standard designed to enable Fibre Channel communications to run directly over Ethernet. Thus, FCoE makes it possible to move Fibre Channel traffic across existing high-speed ...
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