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Posted by James Rogers on December 20, 2007
Intel has cranked up its Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCOE) effort, unveiling an open source software initiator for running the protocol on the Linux operating system.
Despite the fact that the networking spec is still in its infancy, Intel is nonetheless eyeing what its sees as a major opportunity around FCOE.
"The goal is to create a reliable FCOE initiator stack that will be integrated into Linux distributions," says Jordan Plawner, storage product planner at Intel. "We're following all the steps that are necessary to get kernel integration and distribution support."
The vendor's long-term goal is a situation whereby Linux servers ship FCOE-ready, according to Plawner. "What we're saying is that every server should ship FCOE-ready in the same way that servers ship iSCSI-ready [today]."
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