FIBRE CHANNEL FOCUS Volume 9 • October 2011
   
 

UPCOMING EVENTS

SNW Fall 2011
Oct 10 - 13, 2011
Orlando, FL

FCIA Plugfest
Oct 24 - 28, 2011
UNH-IOL

SNW Europe
Nov 2 - 3, 2011
Franfurt, Germany

FCIA/T11 Meeting
Dec 5 - 9, 2011
St. Petersburg, FL


RECENT FC NEWS

 

Welcome

Fibre Channel is an ideal solution for IT professionals who need reliable, cost-effective information storage and delivery at fast speeds. With development starting in 1988 and ANSI standard approval in 1994, Fibre Channel is a mature, safe solution for 1Gb, 2Gb, 4Gb, 8Gb and 16Gb communications, providing an ideal solution for fast, reliable mission-critical information storage and retrieval for today's data centers. Another new Fibre Channel interface development is Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), which leverages the millions of man-hours of Fibre Channel upper layer management and driver development and its extensive installed base, now shipping at 10GFCoE and coming soon industry-wide at 40GFCoE and 100GFCoE.


FCIA Demo at SNW Fall

We have another great demo planned for this year's Fall SNW...


 

The FCIA will be a Platinum Sponsor at this Fall's Storage Networking World (SNW) 2011 event in Orlando, Florida commencing next week on October 10. During SNW, FCIA's booth in the Expo exhibition area will showcase the reality and availability of 16Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) under the theme "The Speed You Need for Big Data and Flexibility", validating the power-to-scale, power-to-evolve and power-to-virtualize in the data center. Eleven industry vendor sponsor members of FCIA will be exhibiting products capable of supporting 16Gbps FC as well as 10GbE Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) as part of a live Storage Area Network (SAN) interoperability demonstration in the FCIA booth. We'll be in booth #410 — come visit us!



Recent Fibre Channel News

Fibre Channel in the Near- and Long- Term
"The death of Fibre Channel has been a perennial prediction in networking circles ever since the first bit of storage data traversed the Ethernet....the simple fact is that there is a lot to look forward to in Fibre Channel, particularly as it transitions into converged I/O infrastructures."
— ITBusinessEdge
     by: Arthur Cole
     September 30, 2011

 
Fibre Channel will dominate FCoE, 10G iSCSI for years, research says
The recent report from LightCounting entitled "Network Storage: Several Years Before FCoE/10Gb iSCSI Threaten Fibre Channel," allows its title to pretty much give away the ending. But if you follow the plotline anyway, the report promises some insightful information about 10-GbE in data centers and storage networks, including 10GBase-T. LightCounting's vice president and senior datacom analyst Kimball Brown notes that while 10-GbE is 'finally taking off,' after a decade, but adds that even four years from now Fibre Channel over Ethernet and iSCSI combined will not match Fibre Channel in terms of port deployments."
— Cabling Installation & Maintenance
     September 26, 2011

 
Avago Debuts Market's First 16 Gigabit Fibre Channel Transceiver for Storage Networking
August 16, 2011

 
Emulex Delivers High-Performance I/O Connectivity for Cisco UCS C-Series and MDS Fibre Channel Switches
July 14, 2011

Broadcom Delivers New Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Solution on World's Fastest Converged Network Adapter Platform
July 11, 2011
 
ATTO Technology Announces Celerity Fibre Channel HBAs Now E-Lab Certified for EMC VNX Storage Systems
June 30, 2011

About FCIA
The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) is a non-profit international organization whose sole purpose is to act as the independent technology and marketing voice of the Fibre Channel industry.

We are committed to helping member organizations promote and position Fibre Channel, and to providing a focal point for Fibre Channel information, standards advocacy, and education.

Today, Fibre Channel technology continues to be the data center standard for storage area networks and enterprise storage, with more than 80 percent market share.