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Posted in Data Center Consolidation, Data Center Virtualization, IO Virtualization on Aug 21st, 2008
As Ethernet speeds reached Fibre Channel’s 1Gb/s and IP became a defacto global protocol for small and large enterprises alike, it became clear that wrapping SCSI commands in TCP/IP packets may be the next standard for block transfer over networks. Even more exciting was that iSCSI would run on everyone’s favorite data center network, Ethernet. [...]
Posted in Data Center Consolidation on Jun 23rd, 2008
10 Gigabit Ethernet has brought tremendous excitement and potential for big change in the datacenter I/O infrastructure and connectivity. Everyday, we are being bombarded with new terminologies and buzzwords like DCE (Data Center Ethernet), FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet), CEE (Congestion Enhanced Ethernet), CFE (Congestion Free Ethernet), Unified Wire, Converged Fabrics, etc.
So, what is [...]