EMC Introduces its First Switch for Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE)

DALLAS, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Storage Networking World -- EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today introduced the EMC(R) Connectrix(R) NEX-5020, its first Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) switch and the first to be offered by a storage provider. The newest addition to EMC's family of switches and directors uses the emerging FCoE standard to transfer data between physical and virtual servers and storage systems using the highly reliable Fibre Channel protocol over high speed, lossless 10 Gb/s Ethernet networks. A network that consolidates data and storage area networking (SAN) on the same wire helps to simplify server, network and storage infrastructures and can lower costs and protect existing technology investments without sacrificing performance, security or reliability. Based on... [read full story]