Brocade and Cisco agree on FCoE detail

In Storage, Technology by J Michel Metz1 Comment

In the not-so-Wild West of FCoE standards negotiation, the two big switch juggernauts – Cisco and Brocade – agreed to a compromise that will affect the way that traffic moves across networks. The good news is that this was a major obstacle to making FCoE have a chance at becoming a valid contender for networking in the data center. So …

FCoE, iSCSI, and InfinBand – Oh My!

In Storage, Technology by J Michel Metz1 Comment

Over at Etherealmind, Greg Ferro wrote a couple of pieces on FCoE that beg to be responded to. Obviously Mr. Ferro understands a great deal about the storage world, but when it comes to FCoE there are some points that I must disagree with.