RMWTUG members are invited to the public conference call: FCoE: Fact vs. Fiction on Tuesday, Feb. 2 at 10:00 a.m. Mountain time (GMT-0700). If you are interested in the future of 10Gb Ethernet, Fibre Channel, or are interested in planning for new data centers, you will want to participate in this public conference call.

RMWTUG President, Dennis Martin, will join the Wikibon community discussion “FCoE: Fact vs. Fiction” with several well-known bloggers and respected technologists.

The community discussion, hosted by Wikibon (www.wikibon.org), will focus on the realities of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) adoption and key issues including:

• What is required to implement FCoE and converged networks — i.e. what can we do with FCoE today?
• What are the limitations and what pitfalls should practitioners understand?
• How fast will FCoE adoption occur — i.e. when will the limitations go away?
• What will be the prominent use cases for FCoE — i.e. where's the fit?

Organizations that want to aggressively pursue virtualization and are seeing high NIC and FC HBA counts are the best candidates to pilot FCoE today and will see the most benefit in the near-to-mid term. FCoE can be deployed today but typically only at small scale. Over the next five years, adoption of FCoE will increase steadily as costs decline and end customers reach a critical mass of infrastructure necessary to support FCoE.

Dennis Martin has been testing FCoE in his lab for more than a year and will be sharing some of his insights.

Information Technology practitioners, data center managers and others interested in FCoE are invited to join this free conference call and participate in the open discussion.

Details, including an Outlook calendar item for this conference call, are available at: http://www.demartek.com/Demartek_Wikibon_FCoE_Fact_vs_Fiction_2010-01.html.