The struggling company will announce a critical new product Monday, a switch for storage networks that closes the gap between competitors' technology. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Worldwide sales of storage area network switches rose 15 percent last year, largely driven by an industry transition toward a newer version of Fibre Channel technology, according to a new study.

McData, a maker of top-end switches used to route data among servers and storage devices on special-purpose storage networks, has a new ally in Compaq Computer, which will sell McData's switches, the ...

Storage networking hardware includes three basic components: host adapters, storage targets and switch interconnects. In traditional SANs, these basic building blocks have been based on Fibre Channel ...

Network professionals who want to save money by more efficiently managing their storage resources may find use for Fibre Channel routers and switches being introduced this week. Storage vendor ...

Analysts called it a watershed event, and the news probably didn't please Fibre-Channel-switch market leaders, such as McData and Brocade Communications Systems. Now, the question is whether Cisco can ...

According to John Grady, Netgear's director of SMB switching, the new gear cements Netgear's place in the SMB, broadening its solution set to target the evolving needs of smaller companies. First up, ...

Start-up Incipient this week launched software for Fibre Channel director-level switches that it says better enables customers to manage data across storage-area networks. The Incipient Network ...

Latest Cisco news. Best storage switches winner: Cisco MDS 9509 By Christine Burns and Keith Shaw Network World Best of the Tests, 02/28/05 The Cisco MDS 9509 is a repeat offender, but we mean that in ...