Fibre Channel networking sales increased 6% in calendar-year 2025, as enterprise customers continued to invest in this technology to support their mission-critical applications. Combined with a robust ...

Although Fibre Channel has been around for a while, it's just now starting to be accepted within the enterprise. As such, there are still many IT pros who don't understand Fibre Channel. In this ...

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 ...

Fibre Channel is the king of enterprise storage-area-network technologies. ISCSI, however, is the heir apparent. When it comes to new SANs, add-ons to existing systems or departmental-level ...

In a previous blog post, I wrote about how Ethernet Storage Fabric (ESF) is the logical choice as the next-generation storage network because of its superior performance, intelligence, and efficiency.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...