back to article House of the rising SAN: Cisco plonks physical 16Gbit/s kit on the table

Virtual SANs are all very well but physical SANs aren't going away – what with Cisco building out its 16Gbit/s Fibre Channel (FC) switching gear. Cisco has improved its storage area networking product set, plunging deeper into the 16Gbit/s FC switch space, thinking that physical SANs and networked block-access storage arrays …

  1. A Non e-mouse Silver badge
    Windows

    Press release?

    Am I being a grumpy old git, or does this article largely sound like a copy 'n' paste job from a press release?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Press release?

      What is it possible to write about here other than the information that would be in the press release? The announcement of a highly expected cell phone may result in a lot of rumors and speculation that can be written about, but new SAN switch announcements are a bit more low key :)

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Press release?

      FC is slowly dying - converged Ethernet is the future with a road map to 100Gbits and beyond.

      Comparing this to say 40GBits Ethernet ports would be of far more use than to Brocade.

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