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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Zoning is done at the Fibre Channel switch and segments ports on the switch into zones; devices can connect only to other devices within their own zone. LUN masking is done at the server and ...

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 ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Following three years of declining sales and a change in management, switch maker Gadzoox Networks Inc. has decided to provide its core silicon intellectual property to other ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...