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OEM of the 3rd generation 10GB CNA fend off being

While the push has already begun to sell their adapters, the mass adoption will begin shortly next year. In 2011, Intel expects to see the addition of their LAN On Motherboard (LOM) chips (aka – the integrated LAN ports on your server and workstation motherboards) included with newly purchased servers and workstations. This, in combination with other 10GB CNA manufacturers, is going to be the driving force to adoption of the Compatible 10GB CNA networks in datacenters.Businesses are hesitant to purchase new infrastructure as there is major expense (see above).Now for those who don't know how much about Flex-10, the technology allows a single Flex-10 NIC to be carved up into a maximum of four virtual NIC's with the bandwidth split between them. By doing this, you remove the requirement for extra interconnect modules and mezanine cards for things like VMware servers, or servers needing iSCSI SAN connections. These can all be provided through the in built NC551i CNA card on the BL465c G7 servers. These 10GB CNA cards can also support FCoE,HP has historically been the largest sellers of FC technology, so FCoE can be seen as an opportunity to expand the storage networking market or a threat to existing revenue streams. HP participated in FCoE standards and ships a number of FCoE solutions, but sometimes delivers marketing that would push people away from FCoE. This week, HP made two announcements that show commitment to converged networking and FCoE. The first is a design win by Emulex for converged LOM on blade servers. Emulex already had this design win with 2nd generation CNA technology and this will be updated to the newer generation when it is available. The second announcement is that HP is now OEMing QLogic 3rd Generation 10GB CNA for use in HP Proliant ML and DL series rack and tower servers.
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