Why buy 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel technology?
The potential benefits of 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel technology include
faster communication
between servers and storage devices
, the ability to more rapidly transfer data from storage
to server or restore data from online backup media; high reliability due to the number of
connections; and investment protection due to backward compatibility with 1 Gb/s and 2
Gb/s components – providing customers with state-of-the-art interconnection technology
at about the same price and cost of ownership as current 2 Gb/s systems.
Some of the Killer Apps for 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel
The information explosion continues to drive the need for higher-performance
communication. Performance improvements in processors, workstations and storage
devices, along with the exponential growth in the amount of data being gathered and
created, have spawned increasingly data-intensive and high-speed networking
applications. 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel enables faster communication between servers and
storage devices at about the same prices as today’s 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel, helping IT
administrators to effectively address the relentless needs of applications and end users.
Tiered Storage
As the concept of storage tiers becomes more prevalent and implementations become
more common, data will need to be routinely migrated from primary storage to secondary
storage across the storage network. Depending on the amount of data being relocated, this
can be a time-consuming and costly process that can put a tremendous strain on the
storage network and potentially disrupt access to the data during the migration. 4 Gb/s
Fibre Channel provides a massive pipe through the SAN that allows data to be quickly
moved from one storage system to another - enabling this bandwidth-intensive transfer to
happen at up to twice the speed of 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel.
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