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 ...

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 ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO), today announced the availability of the industry’s most secure and highest density Gen 7 64G Fibre Channel switch ...

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 ...

The SANbox2-64 is a 64-port switch that is contained in a 4U high enclosure. It runs at 1G or 2G bit/sec and is enabled for Fibre Channel over IP and iSCSI. The SANbox2-64 is enabled for faster Fibre ...

We have to connect our first Fibre Channel switch, a QLogic SanBox, to a pair of Apple XRaid arrays and an XServe. We connected a laptop to the Fibre Channel switch and ran the Express Setup ...

There's a project underway to change some back end infrastructure between two datacenters, and a third party is now providing a managed fibre channel backhaul between the them. I tried utilising them ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Broomfield, Colo.-based vendor refreshed its Sphereon line of Fibre Channel switches with two new models, the company's first to include the 4-Gbps interface, said Steve Scully, director of ...

In the past 10 years, Ethernet-based local area networks (LANs) have progressed a great deal, particularly in their data throughput capabilities. Most data communications functions take place on ...