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Cisco has introduced a new Fibre Channel fabric switch to better connect virtualised servers to all-flash arrays, seeing a rise in back-end array connection port-counts and speed needed to satisfy all-flash array IO demands. It's also bumped up its mainframe FICON connect speed and spread 40GbitE support across its Nexus …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    IT Angle

    Sounds good, but kind of pricey....

    But then Cisco is traditionally not a low up-front cost solution.

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      Re: Sounds good, but kind of pricey....

      You have to price it high when you plan to knock 50+% off to get the sale....

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  2. nilfs2

    Ugh! Fibre Channel

    Everytime someone uses Fibre Channel, a kid has a painful dead in Ruanda.

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      Re: Ugh! Fibre Channel

      <Wooosh> I can't tell whether this is a non-sequitar or there's a serious issue.

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