James Nardi oversees hundreds of terabytes of data. Sometimes, the disks that it all resides on get hammered more than 10,000 times a second. Sometimes, they get requests only once in a blue moon. “We ...

A high-speed transport technology used to build storage area networks (SANs). Although Fibre Channel can be used as a general-purpose network carrying ATM, IP and other protocols, it has been ...

The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) created the “Trusted Foundation,” an initiative designed to raise awareness to current and potential users of storage networking about why Fibre Channel ...

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.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The standard of choice for many of the high-performance video media storage platforms is the ...

We recently looked at NVMe, a PCIe-based protocol that allows computers to communicate with storage in a way optimised for flash storage, with huge increases in input/output (I/O) and throughput ...

I'm re-building my home lab storage machine at the moment and one thing I've never tinkered with before is Fibre Channel and FCoE so I thought it might be worth looking into to see if I can get some ...

I haven't touched Fibre Channel since its very early days and therefore need some help/advice from people who have dealt with modern FC stuff. I got a few Emulex LP10000 and QLogic QLE2460 4Gbps FC ...