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Native FCoE Gets Targeted

 

Powell Lin Submitted by Powell Lin on August 13th, 2008

[NETAPP] NetApp has demonstrated FCoE Target for a while.

[EMC] The recent CLARiiON CX4 overhaul clearly paved the way to support FCoE target controller sometime in 2009.

[HP] The data storage blog (http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/datastorage/archive/2008/03/04/HPPost5865.aspx) certainly concludes they embrace FCoE.

[IBM] One of the T11 committee members driving hard behind FCoE standard. I don’t see why they wouldn’t jump on and work out native FCoE target.

[HDS] “Moving to FCoE for storage arrays would only require the replacement of the front end port modules….it is expected to be much easier for HDS to convert to FCoE.” from Hu Yoshida’s latest blog (http://blogs.hds.com/hu/2008/08/storage_network_unification.html).

A year ago, I had doubts whether or not these storage vendors would take native FCoE seriously. Now I have no doubt that they, at least some of them, will start to support FCoE within the next two years.

It seems very clear they decide to move down FCoE path.

 

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