Fibre Channel devices speed adoption of SANs
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Fibre Channel devices speed adoption of SANs
By Stephen Lawson and David Pendery
InfoWorld Electric
Posted at 7:01 AM PT, Nov 2, 1998
Networking, storage, and system vendors this month will converge on enterprise data centers to make storage simpler and more scalable.
Storage area networks (SANs) will take a big step into the mainstream this week when 3Com announces a set of products for linking servers to
enterprise storage devices. Additionally, start-up Crag Technologies will be launched next week and will specialize in SAN hardware and software.
Also, Hewlett-Packard and Seagate Technology next week will announce a partnership to extend Fibre Channel, the technology underlying SANs, to
four times its current speed.
SANs are designed to let users freely connect any storage device to any server via a shared infrastructure. Traditional server-to-storage links have not
easily allowed this.
HP and Seagate are developing disk drives, hubs, switches, disk arrays, and controllers that will offer 2Gbps Fibre Channel throughput, according to a
source close to the project. Later products will support 4Gbps throughput, the source said.
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