Network equipment manufacturer Extreme Networks and networking technology provider Qlogic have signed an agreement to work together to deliver a new storage network application for data centres. The new storage network application will allow data centre operators to connect Ethernet networks to both Fibre Channel and Fibre Channel over Ethernet networks for a converged storage application.

The combined application is based on Extreme Networks Open Fabric Architecture 10GbE and 40GbE network switches and QLogic Fibre Channel and FCoE storage products. Working together, the products will allow customers to accelerate their storage deployments to a unified network fabric.

Source: CBR