Vendors hype new Fibre Channel

摘要

Storage vendors hyped up-and-coming Fibre Channel over Ethernet technologies at the Storage Networking World trade show last week, revealing a glimpse at products that will start flooding the market in a year or two. "It's the first coming out party for those guys," says analyst Arun Taneja of the Taneja Group, referring to vendors including Emulex, QLogic, Cisco and Brocade. "This was the first time they were able to demo something at least functioning and working." IT managers can expect to wait more than a year before they see robust FCoE products, Taneja says. But vendors have begun demonstrating technology developed around the proposed FCoE standard, which is being written by the Til technical committee of the American National Standards Institute.