QLogic Fibre Channel stackable switches are providing the backbone for the International Broadcast Center's storage area network at the 2010 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Cisco has unveiled its Cisco MDS 9148, a scalable 8 Gpbs Fibre Channel switch which allows 16 to 48 ports.

The Brocade Encryption Switch is tightly integrated with TEMS, a ready-to-use appliance that consolidates and automates the man­age­ment of encryption keys for storage systems in a transparent manner—delivering unified, fine-grained, and auditable encryption key security controls.

Cisco customers say FCoE makes sense as they try to centralize IT and keep data center sprawl to a minimum.

HBA vendor QLogic makes its second-generation converged network adapter (CNA) available for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) networks.

The next generation of Ethernet is likely to have a profound effect on storage; pumped-up iSCSI performance may challenge Fibre Channel's tier 1 dominance.

Founded on the principle that technology is only as good as its implementation, Rackspace Managed Hosting has thrived by tailoring its Web hosting solutions to the unique needs of its customers.

Web 2.0 company Open Sports chose Xsigo Systems director switches for virtual connectivity when building out a network and SAN infrastructure that requires 100% uptime and the ability to scale quickly.