http://blog.fosketts.net/2007/07/25/is-storage-really-that-different/ Understanding the accumulation of data Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:58:00 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://blog.fosketts.net/2007/07/25/is-storage-really-that-different/comment-page-1/#comment-11431 Reality Check: The FCoE Forecast - Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:18:57 +0000 http://blog.fosketts.net/2007/07/25/is-storage-really-that-different/#comment-11431 [...] The biggest storage vendors are behind FCoE simply because they see that converging and leveraging I/O technology makes sense for them. They can swap out the physical and data link layers from Fibre Channel to Ethernet relatively easily, so the FCoE switch is an easier change than iSCSI. It is likely that they will be able to leverage commodity Ethernet hardware to reduce (their, not your) cost and increase profit margins once this switch is made. Plus, FCoE will potentially increase SAN attachment rates (and thus enterprise storage market penetration) thanks to the potential availability of converged network adapters (CNAs) on the server side, and the cost-effectiveness that sharing a CNA between network and storage implies. From the storage side, FCoE is all good. Also see my posts on FCoE versus iSCSI and Cisco VFrame [...] [...] The biggest storage vendors are behind FCoE simply because they see that converging and leveraging I/O technology makes sense for them. They can swap out the physical and data link layers from Fibre Channel to Ethernet relatively easily, so the FCoE switch is an easier change than iSCSI. It is likely that they will be able to leverage commodity Ethernet hardware to reduce (their, not your) cost and increase profit margins once this switch is made. Plus, FCoE will potentially increase SAN attachment rates (and thus enterprise storage market penetration) thanks to the potential availability of converged network adapters (CNAs) on the server side, and the cost-effectiveness that sharing a CNA between network and storage implies. From the storage side, FCoE is all good. Also see my posts on FCoE versus iSCSI and Cisco VFrame [...]

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