FCIA 2020 Board of Directors

Amidst an expanding market being driven by major data center trends, the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) announced its 2019-20 board of directors.

It serves in advisory and fiduciary roles for the purpose of marketing FC technology to the industry.

FCIA is also announced that INCITS/ANSI has published the Fibre Channel Physical Interface FC-PI-7 standard specification for 64GFC. The completion of this standard advances the speed at which companies in the FC industry develop components and test equipment which support deployments of 64Gb FC and Gen 7 solutions for the SAN market.

“FC continues to evolve in lockstep with the storage-networking requirements of both traditional application environments and newer workloads associated with technologies such as AI, machine learning, and big data analytics,” said Brad Casemore, research VP datacenter networks, IDC. “In that regard, enterprises and other organizations are looking to FC to continue to address low latency, increased bandwidth, and ever-greater availability and scalability that storage networks demand.”

The new board includes 4 officers and 3 members-at-large.

FCIA Officers:
• Chairman: Chris Lyon, Amphenol ICC
• President: Mark Jones, Broadcom Inc.
• Treasurer: Craig Carlson, Marvell Semiconductor
• Secretary and Education Chair: David J. Rodgers, Teledyne LeCroy

Directors:
• Marketing chair: Rupin Mohan, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
• Kiran Ranabhor, product management, Cisco
• Steven Wilson, T11 chair (non-voting)

“It’s a great pleasure to work with these outstanding industry leaders in 2020,” said Jones “Together, their skills and experience are a tremendous asset to FCIA as we move the ball forward on promoting the growth and innovation of the FC market as 64Gb FC and Gen 7 solutions begin to appear in the marketplace.“

On the heels of FCIA celebrating its 25th anniversary and the INCITS T11 standards committee holding its 150th meeting, the FC industry continues to progress and technical developments are shaping the future of the storage industry.