* Posts by john Spiers

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iSCSI: Game over

john Spiers

re: iSCSI Game Over

FCoE: The Data Center Bridging specification won’t be ratified for a few years, even though Cisco and others are saying they are already shipping it. Do you remember the interoperability nightmare that the Fibre Channel industry put their customers through in the beginning? Do you remember when Cisco started shipping iSCSI products before the spec. was ratified? How many of those products are customers still using today? Due to the fact that FCoE isn’t routable and is incompatible with the impervious set of IP based infrastructures and management tools out there, iSCSI will be around for the foreseeable future.