Blade Network Technologies has joined forces with Emulex Corp and NetApp to showcase blade server-based Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) unified fabric.
The product is the first of its kind in the industry, showing that the "loss-less" I/O needed to carry FCoE storage traffic within blade architecture can be achieved using products which are based on standards for Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE).
CEE is an advanced version of Ethernet for data centres and the products will be showcased at Storage Networking World.
Blade is collaborating with the other companies to provide FcoE products which consolidate the number of networks in future data centres.
Mark Hudson, chief marketing officer at Blade Network Technologies, said: "FCoE is a rapidly evolving T11.3 standard to transport Fibre Channel storage data over reliable Ethernet networks and enable the convergence of storage, networking and clustering onto a single, cost-effective fabric.
"Blade, Emulex and NetApp have teamed up to ensure that data centres deploying FCoE as part of a unified data centre I/O strategy can realize key benefits, such as increased performance, greater data centre density, lower capital and maintenance costs and lower energy and cooling costs, ultimately resulting in a lower carbon footprint."
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Last Updated: 18/04/2008 12:00
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