Expanded storage

NetApp has announced a convergence-ready, end-to-end 10GbE infrastructure based on the fibre channel over ethernet standard.

This infrastructure enhances enterprises’ ability to efficiently migrate to ethernet.

The company offers standards-based products that support converged ethernet (FCoE, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS) data access and help users streamline their data centres.

With partners such as Cisco and QLogic, the company is expanding ethernet as a storage infrastructure, offering a unified target adapter for its storage systems, switches and converged network adapters.

The move to converged data and storage networks has recently driven increased adoption of 10 GbE in the data centre.

Users can build end-to-end FCoE infrastructures while supporting existing fibre channel investments and take a phased approach to consolidating their data centres around ethernet. They can build out their ethernet infrastructure over time while protecting previous infrastructure investments.

In addition to the unified target adapter, the QLogic 8100 series CAN offers users greater choice and flexibility while building out their infrastructures.

With this adapter, users can run both FCoE and IP traffic through the same port and on the same wire.

The company also offers Cisco Nexus 5000 series switches for data centre networks supporting lossless 10GbE, fibre channel and fibre channel over ethernet. The switches offer an access-layer strategy for gigabit ethernet and mixed gigabit and 10GbE servers.