As an avid technologist I try my best to keep up with ‘the industry’. I do this by monitoring and participating (when I have time) with conversations on Twitter, following some of the best storage-related blogs on the web (Hat Tip: Scott Lowe) and in general just being a nosy person following links wherever they’ll lead me.
So back in June, QLogic asked a question about whether or not they thought encryption of data at the Fibre Channel adapter level was necessary. What interested me most about this was how they said you should buy something they don’t make in order to get the best deal. It seems counterintuitive to me for a company who makes storage networking products to say ‘this sucks, go buy it from someone else’.
Even stranger to me was that this technology they recommended wasn’t deemed ‘good enough’ by a number of customers I have met and talked about security options with storage area networks. Continue reading…