Based on today’s story on SearchStorage' Storage Soup blog, wanted to take a quick minute and clarify a few points. Dell’s position on FCoE is that it will be a useful bridge for Fibre Channel (FC) customers hoping to consolidate LANs and SANs. This is especially valuable for blade server environments. With 10GbE FCoE, customers with 2 and 4 Gbps FC SANs can consolidate their network infrastructures and reduce the ports/cables that they need to manage. Their investment in FC management
With all the vendor chatter on FCoE at SNW last week, you’d think that it’s poised to become the final protocol for unifying storage and networking. What about iSCSI? Dell’s acquisition of EqualLogic demonstrates our belief that iSCSI is an integral part of the solution for unified fabric in the data center. So, does the emergence of FCoE change that? Not at all. FCoE deserves respect as Ethernet’s successor to Fibre Channel (FC). FCoE acknowledges the dominant install base of Fibre Channel and also