Gartner Rebuffs Cost Claims For Converged Data Centres
The concept that multiple data centre networks can be made more efficient by converging them into one system using Data Centre Bridging (DCB) technology is flawed, according to analyst Gartner.
In a report issued this week, “Myth: A Single FCoE Data Center Network = Fewer Ports, Less Complexity and Lower Costs”, the analyst stated that converged data centre networks actually require more power and cooling and are more complex to manage than two well-designed separate networks.
“The industry is abuzz with the promise of a single converged network infrastructure, this time in the data centre core,” said Joe Skorupa, research vice president at Gartner. “Alternatively described as Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), Data Centre Ethernet (DCE), or more precisely, Data Centre Bridging (DCB), this latest set of developments hopes to succeed where InfiniBand failed in its bid to unify computing, networking and storage networks.”
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