“Fibre Channel is dead.” That was the controversial conclusion of one participant in a heated debate at an industry conference back in 2000. Industry vendors were investigating a new protocol – ...

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of “Storage Area Network Fundamentals” (ISBN 158705065X ) published courtesy of Cisco Press. With the growing popularity of storage area networks (SANs), ...

While it’s a fact that most storage is still attached directly to the server that accesses it, is also true that storage continues to move at a steady pace onto the network. In all but the smallest IT ...