Organizations running standalone Fibre Channel-based Storage Area Networks may be able to reduce the amount of cabling snaking through their datacenters, thanks to an emerging converged network ...

Broadcom’s first processor for FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) is now coming on the market in network adapters qualified by EMC, backed by claims it is 80 percent faster than any other FCoE ...

Assuming a new deployment that is capable of running FCoE - NetApp filer with UTA ports in 10GbE mode, ESXi hosts with Intel X520 adapters and a pair of Juniper EX4550 switches - what advantages are ...

There is a lot of debate about Fibre Channel over Ethernet and converged network adapters. A CNA is a 10-GbE network interface card that supports multiple data networking protocols, basically TCP/IP ...

Intel has eased the migration to a single network infrastructure throughout data centers by introducing Open FCOE, a free software stack for Fibre Channel Over Ethernet. The software stack had been in ...

Have you ever watched one of those spy films where someone gets fatally poisoned, but it hasn’t hit them yet and they are acting like its any other day and not the last days of their life and you just ...

FCoE adoption is getting ready to pick up steam. That's my take from Storage Networking World (SNW). The FCoE sessions and labs seemed well attended. This means that users are getting ready to deploy ...

Ever since the emergence of Fibre Channel SANs in the late 1990s, enterprise IT managers have maintained two sets of networks, one for storage I/O traffic and the other for data network traffic. But ...

Broadcom's persistent attempts to drag Emulex to the acquisition altar took another turn recently when Broadcom sweetened its offer from $9.25 per share to $11 per share of Emulex stock. Now would be ...

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.