James Nardi oversees hundreds of terabytes of data. Sometimes, the disks that it all resides on get hammered more than 10,000 times a second. Sometimes, they get requests only once in a blue moon. “We ...

Storage networking vendors announced 16Gb Fibre Channel adapters and switches as early as 2011. When the FCIA (Fibre Channel Industry Association) announced in late 2013 that the INCITS T11 standards ...

HP this week is unveiling new hybrid hard drives that combine Fibre Channel and ATA technologies. Dubbed Fibre Attached Technology Adapted, or FATA, the new drives are aimed at dropping the cost of ...

In her recent Q&A session with IT consultant and Network World tester Joel Snyder, Senior Editor Deni Connor questioned Snyder’s rationale for making the declaration that Fibre Channel technology is ...

“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 – ...

Storage switch vendor McData Corp. Tuesday said it is acquiring Computer Network Technology Corp. in a $235 million deal. CNT is a leader in WAN extension and long-distance data replication technology ...

A large internet provider has acquired a fiber business for almost $6 billion, expanding internet options for Nevadans. AT&T has acquired the majority of Lumen’s Mass Market fiber, which operates as ...

Colt Technology Services has announced the successful completion of the deployment of a new dark fiber (G.652D/G.657) cable along the Channel Tunnel connecting London to Paris. The infrastructure ...