storage-area

Brocade and Cisco are 1 and 2, respectively, in Fibre Channel storage-area networks.

Cisco's top 10 rivals Jim Duffy 2010

The adapters and motherboard LAN are interoperable with existing LAN, networ-attached storage and storage-area network environments, support an array of hypervisors, and are available in a number of physical form factors.

QLogic unveils new generation of 10G adapters Jim Duffy 2010

Juniper says the new software and Trio ASICs are also designed to support FibreChannel-over-Ethernet, a storage encapsulation technology designed to converge storage-area network and LAN traffic on a single Ethernet infrastructure.

Juniper collapses the data center 2010

The products include a Fibre Channel mezzanine host bus adapter card for HP's BladeSystem c-Class servers; a virtualization SAN starter kit that bundles storage arrays, Host bus adapters (HBA) and storage-area network (SAN) switches for pre-integrated deployment; and a 64-port 8Gbps Fibre Channel module for HP/Brocade SAN switches that boosts FibreChannel port density.

Brocade, HP unveil data center extensions 2010

Brocade would provide a "strong" storage-area network switching business and "solid" Ethernet installed base to Dell, enabling the server company "to move upward in the enterprise and the data center," Kidron writes.

Dell to make a play for Brocade? 2010

Juniper says the new software and Trio ASICs are also designed to support FCoE, a storage encapsulation technology for converging storage-area network and LAN traffic on a single Ethernet infrastructure.

Juniper seeks to out-virtualize Cisco in data centers 2010

FCoE is considered by many in the industry to be the key technology for converging LAN and storage-area network traffic over a common lossless Ethernet switching fabric in the data center.

HP consolidates, protects data centers 2010

Enterprises can reconfigure connections to LANs and storage-area networks (SAN) by moving workloads or adding and replacing servers on the fly, for instance.

HP bakes automation into new servers, storage, energy-management wares 2010

UCS relies on a data center fabric that can handle storage-area networks, network-attached storage and iSCSI, creating opportunities to save costs by reducing provisioning time, more efficient management and reduced power costs.

Data center upgrades demand attention now 2010

Brocade this week rolled out 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 8Gbps FibreChannel modules for its routers and storage-area network switches designed to increase the wire-speed density of both platforms to better support network consolidation and improve service levels.

Brocade boosts 10G Ethernet density for data centers 2010