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editor’s note
Fibre Channel Industry Association advances 32 gigabit per second fibre roadmap
The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) has announced the INCITS T11 standards committee has recently completed the Fibre Channel Physical Interface – sixth generation (FC-PI-6) industry standard for specifying 32 Gigabit per second (Gbps) Fibre Channel and will forward it to the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) for publication in the first quarter of 2014.
The 2013 completion marks a successful milestone on FCIA’s Speed Roadmap for 32 Gbps Fibre Channel, and signals continued innovation for data centers requiring a fast, scalable and reliable storage network, based on the proven tried and true Fibre Channel storage network technology.
The Fibre Channel PI-6 standard specification includes:
· One single fibre optic or electrical copper lane of cabled interconnect for better port density real estate and power reduction than multi-lane interconnect technologies · 64/66b ENDEC transcoding that ensures reliable error-free, packet-loss free data transfers at full 32Gbps bandwidth utilization
· The ability to service port-to-port distances up to 100 meters of intra-data center connectivity on OM4 laser optimized multi-mode optical fibre cable, up to six meters of intra-data center connectivity on electrical copper cable and up to 10,000 meters of long-distance inter-data center connectivity on laser optimized single- mode optical fibre cable
At 32 Gbps, Fibre Channel doubles the data rate of the current 16G Fibre Channel standard. Vendor solutions are expected in 2015/2016.
Phil Alsop Editor
S4 World news
Fibre Channel Industry Association advances 32 gigabit per second fibre roadmap
Personal and entry level storage growth
S5 Take your datacenter into the future with SMB 3.0
A First Class Storage Protocol for Windows Environments.
S7 SVC Awards winners And the winners are …
The third annual Storage Virtualization and Cloud (SVC) Awards took place on Thursday 21st November at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel in Knightsbridge, London in front of 200 guests from across Europe.
S11 SSDs: A sensible yet Flash-y option Flash is a hot topic. The technology has been labelled with an almost magical ability to speed up the performance of storage systems and dependant applications. However, flash is not a magic bullet, and to turn an underperforming storage environment into a superstar requires a bit of planning, as well as an understanding of some of the potential challenges.
S14 Multi-tenancy no longer limited to MSP arena
In the Managed Service Provider arena, multi-tenancy is becoming increasingly popular. More and more, MSPs are starting to use converged infrastructures to support multiple customers on one integrated platform. This trend is supported by various suppliers of software for infrastructure management, data management and security. It is obvious that multi-tenancy addresses the specific challenges of the MSP industry. But it also provides excellent opportunities for the enterprise market.
S16 Is NASA’s data lost in space? NASA’s own auditor has recently rated its cloud computing deployments very poorly in a report that raises some interesting questions on the use of the cloud at the space agency.
S18 Scale-out NAS on the verge of greater adoption
Scale-out NAS, once affordable only to large enterprises, is poised for adoption by midsized firms needing flexibility, data control and reduced storage spending.
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