Article: The Future of Storage — Seven Fundamental Reasons Why FCoE Will Fail
May 20, 2008 by Greg Ferro · Leave a Comment
An article I wrote on concerns about FCoE adoption has been posted at The Future of Storage and reviews seven reasons why FCoE might not achieve critical mass in the marketplace.
Feedback appreciated. Is anyone considering using FCoE in real life ?
If you are arriving here from The Future of Storage you may be interested in my series of articles on iSCSI design. Join me as a I research and document an iSCSI Network.
iSCSI Network Designs Part 1 — introduction and some basics
iSCSI Network Designs Part 5 — iSCSI Multipathing, HA and HBA
All iSCSI Network Design articles
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