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Intel buying Qlogic InfiniBand to aid exaflop HPC programmes

Intel announced yesterday that it had agreed to buy parts of Qlogic's InfiniBand business as the chip maker looks to provide storage and server bandwidth that will allow systems to achieve exaflop computing.
QLogic launches upgrades to converged network products

QLogic has unveiled a network adapter and switch that allows users to send 16Gbps Fibre Channel and 10GbE traffic over the same wire, while offloading protocol traffic from servers.
Broadcom launches adapter chip for Fiber Channel over Ethernet

Broadcom's first processor for FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) is now coming on the market in network adapters qualified by EMC, backed by claims it is 80 percent faster than any other FCoE component.
HP overhauls SANs, management software for SMEs

HP announced storage hardware upgrades and management software updates for SMBs. The upgrades include the ability to create a SAN using both VMware and HyperV servers as well as being able to back up SQL and Exchange servers.
Cisco and VMware build FCoE and virtual server network

Cisco, NetApp and VMware said they have certified their products to create a single, end-to-end Fibre Channel over Ethernet network that can handle virtual server traffic as well as high speed data storage transport.
40 and 100G Ethernet networking standards finished

The 40G/100G Ethernet standard has been ratified, the first specification to simultaneously specify two new Ethernet speeds.
Compellent includes new features with Storage Center 5

Compellent has boosted its Storage Center SAN
Dell offers new range of 10 Gig Ethernet kit for data centres

Dell has added a host of new products to its data centre range
Enterasys revamps high-end Ethernet switch line

Enterasys is introducing a major upgrade to its Ethernet switch line in an effort to better serve converged networks, including those that are heavily virtualised.
Emulex rejects Broadcom's final buyout bid

Network components manufacturer Emulex has rejected Broadcom's revised cash offer. Broadcom, which had already indicated this latest offer would be its last, said it was dropping all efforts to acquire Emulex.

Latest Features

Can Fibre Channel survive Ethernet's assault?

Expensive and specialised Fibre Channel SANs have been under assault as companies consolidate data traffic over Ethernet. With Fibre Channel disks already largely eliminated from the market by SAS, can networking gear be far behind?
Network virtualisation and next generation network architecture

As IT leaders try to get the best performance and efficiency out of their virtualised environments, they're realising the need for virtual networking, and often a whole new networking architecture that's designed for virtualisation from the ground up.
Why is converged I/O in data centres taking so long?

So if converging the I/O infrastructure in data centres is all the rage, what's taking IT shops so long to do it?
How Fibre Channel over Ethernet went from fee to free

With demand for FCoE more sluggish than vendors had hoped, 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch and adapter makers are making it available for free.
Fibre Channel vs. iSCSI: The war continues

In the beginning there was Fibre Channel (FC), and it was good. If you wanted a true SAN - versus shared direct-attached SCSI storage - FC is what you got. But FC was terribly expensive, requiring dedicated switches and host bus adapters, and it was difficult to support in geographically distributed environments. Then, around six or seven years ago, iSCSI hit the SMB market in a big way and slowly began its climb into the enterprise.
FCoE vs iSCSI over Ethernet

Even though FibreChannel over Ethernet gets all the hype, iSCSI over Ethernet is just as capable of converging or unifying data centre servers, storage and networking, proponents say.
Server virtualisation rings iSCSI vendor's bell

IP-based SANs are on the up - and it's all thanks to server virtualisation, argues Larry Cormier, of iSCSI storage developer LeftHand Networks.
The lowdown on the Techworld product awards

We're often asked why certain products won an award - or why others didn't. We don't want the judges' decision to be shrouded in secrecy so this year we're setting out why the winners triumphed.
Going global with Ethernet

Network service providers are beginning to offer Global Ethernet - Ethernet in the WAN. So what is it, how does it work, and why might you want it?
Is FCoE the emperor's new trousers?

Everyone involved is saying such nice things about it that a cynic might start to wonder where the catch is...

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