Hi all,<BR><BR>I have an upcoming project where a client wants to go all gigabit. Their port requirements are over 24 so I will be needing two switches. I would like to link them via their available ...

Storage networking hardware includes three basic components: host adapters, storage targets and switch interconnects. In traditional SANs, these basic building blocks have been based on Fibre Channel ...

Costa Mesa, Calif.—Emulex Corp. introduced a family of embedded storage switches named InSpeed that enables complete speed flexibility across Fibre Channel storage system back-ends. The InSpeed SOC ...

4G Fiber Channel (4GFC) cut-through switches enable high system performance, reliability, availability, and serviceability to enterprise storage equipment manufacturers. The chips provide 4-, 18-, and ...

Included in that list was a stealth company set up by Cisco and destined to be acquired by its parent. The FCoE technology has been in development by leading networking and storage companies for about ...

In a quickly changing distributed data center environment where wholesale server consolidation is rapidly occurring and where storage capacity is out of control, IT administrators need to be able to ...

Storage switch vendor McData Corp. Tuesday said it is acquiring Computer Network Technology Corp. in a $235 million deal. CNT is a leader in WAN extension and long-distance data replication technology ...

Broadcom has launched its first Fibre Channel Gen7 storage switches, which allow array-server connectivity at 64Gbps, which is double the performance of Gen6. The new switches – the Brocade G720 and ...

The Federal Trade Commission will likely approve Broadcom’s $5.9 billion acquisition of Brocade, but with conditions to prevent “anticompetitive effects.” The FTC is concerned that once Broadcom owns ...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fibre Channel networking sales increased 6% in calendar-year 2025, as enterprise customers continued to invest in this technology to support their ...

In 1897 the great American author, Mark Twain was rumored to have stated, “the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”. In the tech industry, Fibre Channel could make the same statement. It seems ...