Like clockwork Brocade releases new FOS version around every 6 months. No news here. FOS 8.2.1 is however a release you may need to pay special attention to especially if you have X6 director class switches hooked up to a 240 volt, 50 Hz power mains as well as sitting between a rock and a […]
FOS 8.2.1 – the one that is required.. or not? Read More »
For years many storage environments have used both active-active and active-passive multipath (MPIO) access mechanisms to access storage arrays in a dispersed or linear method. On enterprise class storage arrays with global caches the active-active method is most often used while on modular arrays you\’ll see the active-passive scenario often applied. Inherently this means that
Energy Efficient Fibre Channel and related cost savings Read More »
It\’s comes to no surprise that a couple of technologies really struck in 2012. Flash disk drives, and specifically in flash arrays, have gone mainstream. One more technology still clinging on is converged networking and of course Big Data. Big Data has become such a hype-word that many people have different opinions and descriptions for it. What is basically boils down
Storage in 2013 and beyond. Read More »
