Today's ANSI news: .......... FC vendors propose FCoE. Fibre Channel Protocol over Ethernet or something like that. Serial SCSI running over Ethernet without TCP or IP. Let's see, that has been tried before with Nishan's SOIP, Adaptec's EtherSCSI and other less well known technologies - and killed off by whom? Most of the companies proposing FCoE. Ironic.
So, if you are a FC vendor and it looks like 10Gb Ethernet is going to be part of the tiger (along with iSCSI) that eats your lunch, what do you do? You resurrect old ideas that you hung five years ago, dust off the corpses, insert zombie brains and call it the new shiny FCoE (Frankenstein Convergence over Ethernet?). The only difference between what you killed yesterday and your unholy experiment today is that this bad boy saves your business. It doesn't really have that much to do with customers, except that you get to squeeze them a little longer.
Here is a link to a TechTarget blog that I agree with.
And in honor of this abomination, here is a link to Tim Burton's Frankenweenie on YouTube .
Comments (4)
Hi Marc,
As usual you don't pull any punches - which is a good thing. My take on FCoE isn't quite as strong as yours. Your blog prompted
mine:
http://esgblogs.typepad.com/stor_wars/2007/04/fcoe_quick_take.html
Posted by Tony Asaro | April 10, 2007 10:54 AM
Posted on April 10, 2007 10:54
Hi Marc,
As usual you don't pull any punches - which is a good thing. My take on FCoE isn't quite as strong as yours. Your blog prompted
mine:
http://esgblogs.typepad.com/stor_wars/2007/04/fcoe_quick_take.html
Posted by Tony Asaro | April 10, 2007 10:54 AM
Posted on April 10, 2007 10:54
Hi Marc- Yes, it isn't all new, bu it may still be relevant to customers. Your blog got me thinking - Here's my thoughts on what
customers demand when we are trying to provide them with a new technology
http://johnhayes.wordpress.com/2007/04/22/fcoe-yet-another-storage-protocol/
Posted by John Hayes | April 22, 2007 8:18 PM
Posted on April 22, 2007 20:18
Hi Marc,
I feel this proposal will benefit both FC and Ethernet switch manufacturers
Posted by Biju Perumal | July 31, 2007 5:10 AM
Posted on July 31, 2007 05:10