Brocade expands into HBAs

Storage in the Enterprise This newsletter is sponsored by Silver Peak WAN Acceleration: What You Must Know Join Robert Whiteley, senior analyst, Forrester Research, as he quickly and easily explains the technologies behind WAN acceleration: how each works and how they differ from solution to solution. Get the knowledge you need to understand how the technology can greatly improve your network. Network World's Storage in the Enterprise Newsletter, 06/05/07 Brocade expands into HBAs By Deni Connor Brocade made a good move last week by announcing that it will offer Fibre Channel and iSCSI host bus adapters, along with its storage area networking Fibre Channel switches and software products. The company will introduce a 4Gbps Fibre Channel HBA and an iSCSI HBA in the next three months. The expansion of Brocade’s product line is good for the industry, long dominated by two vendors – Emulex and QLogic. It may mean that pricing for HBAs will be more competitive and that users will be able to buy all their SAN gear from one vendor. The products will be based on technology from LSI Logic and its acquisition of Silverback Systems in January. Single and dual-port Fibre Channel HBAs come about from a partnership with LSI; the iSCSI technology is thanks to Silverback. Network World Storage Buyer's Guide If you're in the market for anything from a tape library to an on-line backup service to a complete, drop-it-in-place SAN Solution, check out this Buyer's Guide with close to 200 products divided among specific, storage market segments. Click Here In the next year, Brocade will also introduce 8Gbps Fibre Channel and 10Gbps Ethernet adapters. The Brocade 2110 iSCSI Initiator HBA will work with Microsoft and Linux servers. Availability of the Brocade 4Gbps Fibre Channel HBAs are expected by July of this year. The company’s iSCSI Initiator HBA is at present in testing at storage OEMs. As an aside, visit Network World’s new Data Center Supplement, where you'll find stories on storage grids, e-discovery, storage virtualization, new backup tools and green data centers.   What do you think? Post a comment on this newsletter

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