Category Archives: Ethernet

Is FC dead?!

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Ray

Was at the Pacific Crest/Mosaic annual conference cocktail hour last night surrounded by a bunch of iSCSI/NAS storage vendors and they made the statement that FC is dead. Apparently, 40GbE is just around the corner and 10GbE cards have started … Continue reading →

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SolidFire supplies scale-out SSD storage for cloud service providers

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Ray

I was talking with a local start up called SolidFire the other day with an interesting twist on SSD storage.  They were targeting cloud service providers with a scale-out, cluster based SSD iSCSI storage system.  Apparently a portion of their … Continue reading →

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EMCWorld day 2

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Ray

Day 2 saw releases for new VMAX  and VPLEX capabilities hinted at yesterday in Joe’s keynote. Namely, VMAX announcements VMAX now supports Native FCoE with 10GbE support now VMAX supports directly FCoE, 10GbE iSCSI and SRDF Enhanced Federated Live Migration … Continue reading →

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New file system capacity tool – Microsoft’s FSCT

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Ray

Jose Barreto blogged about a recent report Microsoft did on File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) results (blog here, report here).  As you may know FSCT is a free tool released in September of 2009, available from Microsoft that verifies a SMB … Continue reading →

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Why Open-FCoE is important

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Ray

I don’t know much about O/S drivers but I do know lots about storage interfaces. One thing that’s apparent from yesterday’s announcement from Intel is that Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) has taken another big leap forward. Chad Sakac’s chart … Continue reading →

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Top 10 storage technologies over the last decade

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Ray

Some of these technologies were in development prior to 2000, some were available in other domains but not in storage, and some were in a few subsystems but had yet to become popular as they are today.  In no particular … Continue reading →

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