Network World on Storage ManagementThe latest storage-management news and analysis from NetworkWorld.com.FCoE: the evolutionary approach to SAN expansion- April 22, 2008 Ever since the emergence of Fibre Channel SANs in the late 1990s, enterprise IT managers have maintained two sets of networks, one for storage IO traffic and the other for data network traffic. But system consolidation and SAN expansion efforts are driving the need for a unified fabric where multiple traffic types -- network, storage and clustering -- are all carried over a single network infrastructure.http://www.networkworld.com/news/tech/2008/042208-tech-update.html?fsrc=rss-storagemgmt |