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FCIA 2014/2015 Board of Directors Elected

Mark Jones, Emulex, continues as president and succeeds Skip Jones, formerly at QLogic, as chairman.

This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on December 11, 2014 at 2:50 pm

The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA), a non-profit international organization of manufacturers, systems integrators and vendors, has elected a board of directors to serve its membership for the 2014-2015 term.

The FCIA organization consists of 23 global member companies, all of which are in the FC industry and continue to provide thought education and guidance to the storage networking market

Members of the 2014/2015 FCIA board of directors are:
 
FCIA Officers:

  • fcia,Jones  Chairman and president: Mark Jones, Emulex
  • Treasurer: Greg McSorley, Amphenol
  • Secretary: Jay Neer, Molex

Members at Large:

  • Marketing chair: Rupin Mohan, Hewlett Packard
  • Craig Carlson, Qlogic
  • Kevin Ehringer, DCS
  • Saito Kinya, Fujitsu Japan (FCIA Japan)
  • J Metz, Cisco
  • Steven Wilson, Brocade

“FC is the only purpose-built and proven fabric based network for storage, engineered to meet the demands of enterprise data centers that require non-stop availability, maximum performance, and simple scalability,” said Jones. “2014 was another great year for FC innovation and enterprises and service providers can look forward to even more advancements in the coming years as next-generation solutions are developed based on the Gen 6 standard in order to leverage its advanced feature set.“

In 2014, FCIA announced several initiatives designed to extend FC’s position as a reliable and robust storage networking solution including:

  • Gen 6 FC,  the industry’s fastest industry standard networking protocol that enables SANs of up to 128Gb FC
  • A workgroup within the INCITS T11 Committee that will align FC fabric connectivity using the upcoming  NVMe Over Fabrics standards specification
  • Finalization of the FC-BB-6 standard, representing the ongoing evolution of the FC technology to leverage ubiquitous datacenter resources such as Ethernet
  • A ‘Trusted Foundation’ initiative with an online Knowledge Vault to raise awareness to current and potential users of storage networking about why FC has become so predominant, amid a sea of other storage networking protocols
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