Demartek FC Zone - Fibre Channel Resources
Welcome to the Demartek Fibre Channel (FC) Resources, a collection of FC research including results from tests run in our lab with various FC switches, adapters and storage targets. History and roadmap items for FC and other storage interfaces are available on the Demartek Storage Networking Interface Comparison page. Information about our test lab is available on our Lab Validation Testing page.
- Public Presentations
- Public Evaluations and Lab Reports (includes validation testing and performance comparisons)
- Articles and Commentary
Public Presentations Including Videos and Podcasts
- Demartek Webinar on Multi-Protocol and Multi-Topology Storage Networks
- 16 Gbps Fibre Channel Performance and Fibre Channel Industry Panel Session at SNW USA Spring 2012
- Demartek Presents at SNW Europe 2011
- Demartek to Present SSD, FCoE, and I/O Virtualization Technologies at SNW Spring 2011
- Demartek Presents YouTube Video of Emulex OneCommand Manager
- Demartek to Present FCoE technologies at the Ethernet Technology Summit in February 2011
- Demartek to Present SSD and FCoE technologies at the Storage Decisions Conference in San Francisco in November 2010
- Demartek to Moderate an FCoE Panel Discussion at SNW Europe in October 2010
- Demartek to Present FCoE Technology at SNW USA in October 2010
- Demartek to Present SSD and FCoE technologies at the Storage Decisions Conference in New York in September 2010
- Demartek to Present SSD and FCoE technologies at the Storage Decisions Conference in Chicago in June 2010
- Demartek to Present Unified Storage Networking and I/O Virtualization at SNW in Orlando, April 2010
- Demartek To Join the Wikibon Discussion on FCoE: Fact vs. Fiction, Feb. 2, 2010
- Demartek To Present SSD and FCoE technologies at the Storage Decisions Conference in San Francisco, November 17, 2009
- Demartek to Present Unified Storage Networking at SNW in Phoenix, October 2009
- Demartek to Present SSD and FCoE at Storage Decisions New York, September 2009
- Demartek to Present FCoE and related technologies at Storage Decisions Conference June 2009 session in Chicago and Toronto
Public Evaluations and Lab Reports
- Demartek Evaluates QLogic 2600 Series FC HBA
- Demartek Publishes Evaluation of Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X520
- Demartek Publishes Evaluation of Emulex LPe16000B 16GFC HBA
- Demartek Publishes Brocade 6510 Latency Evaluation
- Demartek Publishes Cisco Multi-protocol and Multi-topology Latency Evaluation
- Demartek Publishes VeloBit SSD Caching Software Evaluation
- Demartek Publishes Texas Memory Systems High-Performance Oracle RAC Architecture with 16 Gbps Fibre Channel
- Demartek Publishes GridIron High-Performance MySQL Cluster Architecture with 16 Gbps Fibre Channel
- Demartek Publishes Exchange Server 2003 vs 2007 vs 2010 I/O Comparison Summary
- Demartek Publishes EMC VFCache Evaluation
- Demartek Low Latency Evaluation of Fibre Channel, iSCSI and SAS Host Interfaces
- Demartek Publishes NetApp Multi-Protocol Storage Evaluation
- Demartek Publishes Evaluation of QLogic-HP SSCM Software
- Demartek Publishes Evaluation of Emulex OneCommand Manager Software
- Demartek Publishes Evaluation of IBM/QLogic FCoE Server and Storage Solution
- Demartek Publishes Evaluation of NetApp Ethernet Storage
- Demartek Publishes Update of 8 Gbps Fibre Channel HBA Comparison of Emulex and Brocade HBAs
- Demartek Publishes Hyper-V Performance of Emulex 8-Gb/s Fibre Channel Adapters
- Demartek Publishes 8 Gbps Fibre Channel HBA Comparison of Emulex and Brocade HBAs
- Demartek Publishes FCoE First Look and Test Drive Reports
- Demartek Emulex HBA VMware Product Evaluation
- Demartek Emulex HBAnyware Product Evaluation
Articles and Commentary
- Dennis Martin Discusses Data Center Storage Bottlenecks
- Demartek Announces Lab Upgrades for June 2012
- Demartek Adds PCI Express 3.0 Server to Testing Lab
- Demartek Adds Small, Fast Server to its Test Lab
- Demartek Publishes Article on Storage Networking Alternatives
- Demartek Adds Large-Memory Server to its Test Lab
- Demartek Featured in Storage Decisions Article
- Demartek Comments on Storage Networking World Spring 2010
- Demartek Publishes Storage Networking Interface Comparison Summary (Updated 1-August-2012)
- Demartek Adds its First Nehalem System to its Test Lab
- Demartek Adds 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Infrastructure to its Test Lab
View our technology comparison summaries or our complete list of news and reports.