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Fibre Channel Customers Must Consider FCoE Options: Page 3 of 3

Also, firms will have to grapple with personnel issues if they decide to move to FCoE. Fibre Channel technicians have been hard to find and are expensive. How readily these individuals will embrace Ethernet as a company's prime storage networking option and how easily they can be integrated into a unified computing platform data center are open questions.

In the short term, 8G Fibre Channel offers companies a way to add needed bandwidth to overtaxed connections. Longer term, it seems likely that many companies will move away from this communication option to FCoE. As a result, companies need to find a balance between conflicting short term and long term objectives.