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Whats After Fibre Channel?

April 26, 2017fibre channel ip networks networking Networking and Internet storage

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Whats After Fibre Channel?

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James Nardi oversees hundreds of terabytes of data. Sometimes, the disks that it all resides on get hammered more than 10,000 times a second. Sometimes, they get requests only once in a blue moon. “We can’t use just one disk technology and satisfy all our storage needs,” says Nardi, director of Web hosting special operations at Edgewood, Colo.-based Verio Inc., one of the world’s largest Internet hosting providers. So Verio has a significant investment in Fibre Channel technology, which delivers excellent results for demanding storage needs. But the company, like so many others, is constantly looking beyond Fibre Channel for future storage solutions. Some of the leading contenders to displace Fibre Channel are iSCSI, Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP), Internet Fibre Channel and, in the near future, InfiniBand. Verio is looking at all of them. It has full-time technology evaluators in Virginia and Colorado who are dedicated to checking out the latest in advanced storage and other systems. “W