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The Building Blocks of Unified Fabric and LAN/SAN Convergence sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel® WHITE PAPER: This white paper details the benefits of I/O consolidation on Ethernet and Fibre Channel. Posted: 12 Jun 2014 \| Published: 13 Aug 2013 TOPICS: Data Center Design \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Networking \| Ethernet Cable \| Ethernet Networks \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Fibre Channel Switches \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Networking

IBM Upgrades SVC with Solid State Drives - Achieves Better Storage Utilization sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: With the availability of solid-state storage within Version 5 of its SAN Volume Controller, IBM once again delivers outstanding tech-nological innovation to the data center. Read this paper to find out so much more. Posted: 20 Oct 2010 \| Published: 19 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Disk Drives \| Fibre Channel \| SAN \| Solid State Disks \| Storage Architectures \| Virtual Tape Libraries \| Virtualization Security

Best Practices Guide: Emulex Virtual HBA® Solutions and VMware® ESX Server 3.5 sponsored by Emulex Corporation, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This paper provides an overview of some of the cases and outlines the steps required to deploy NPIV on ESX Server 3.5. Posted: 03 Jun 2008 \| Published: 01 Apr 2008 TOPICS: Data Centers \| Fibre Channel \| SAN \| TCO \| Virtualization \| VMware

How to Handle the Growing Number of Traffic Types in your Data Center sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: This white paper details the benefits of I/O consolidation on Ethernet and Fibre Channel Posted: 11 Nov 2013 \| Published: 13 Aug 2013 TOPICS: Data Center Design \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Ethernet Cable \| Ethernet Networks \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Fibre Channel Switches

The Value of Shared SSDs in Enterprise Computing sponsored by QLogic Corporation WHITE PAPER: This paper covers the advantages of the QLogic FabricCache 10000 Series adapters bringing transparent, shared caching to enterprise application environments. It combines a QLogic Fibre Channel adapter with intelligent caching to bring new levels of scalable application performance to existing SAN environments. Posted: 25 Apr 2013 \| Published: 31 Mar 2013 TOPICS: Cache \| Caching \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| SAN \| Server Accelerators \| Server Management \| Solid State Disks \| Solid State Storage

The Latest Data Storage Networking Infrastructure Trends sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. EGUIDE: IT shops looking to consolidate their data centers and virtualize servers have to weigh the latest storage networking technology developments as they plot any infrastructure upgrade. This SearchStorage.com E-Guide explores the current state of data storage networking infrastructure before you make an upgrade. Posted: 25 Apr 2012 \| Published: 25 Apr 2012 TOPICS: Converged Networks \| Ethernet Networks \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Infiniband Architecture \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Optimization \| Storage Strategy for Virtual Data Centers

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): SAN Acceleration Using FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS) sponsored by FalconStor Software WHITE PAPER: Do you have questions regarding SAN acceleration? Learn more about solid state storage, which solid state technologies are currently on the market, and why your enterprise needs solid state storage. This concise white paper is designed to answer frequently asked questions on these topics and more. Posted: 25 Oct 2010 \| Published: 25 Oct 2010 TOPICS: Cache \| Fibre Channel \| Hard Disk Drives \| Memory \| SAN \| Solid State Disks \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| USB \| Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Why SAS Matters - Cost Effective Performance with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Technology from Hitachi sponsored by Hitachi Vantara WHITE PAPER: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is replacing Fibre Channel drives in high performance applications such as online transaction processing, real time analytics & streaming media. The key reasons for this transition are that SAS drives have the same or better reliability and data availability characteristics of Fibre Channel drives but are less expensive. Posted: 25 Jan 2010 \| Published: 01 Dec 2009 TOPICS: Disk Drives \| Fibre Channel \| SCSI Controllers \| Serial ATA \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Infrastructure

Storage Magazine Online: December 2012 – 6 Hot Storage Technologies for 2013 sponsored by TechTarget Storage EZINE: Our final issue of Storage Magazine Online in 2012 features one of our most popular annual columns: Hot Technologies for Next Year. Explore this month’s cover story, in which our team of editors team up to tell you the six technologies to watch in 2013 - and why they should be on your radar if they’re not already. Posted: 04 Dec 2012 \| Published: 01 Dec 2012 TOPICS: Backups \| Cloud Backup \| Cloud Storage \| Data Deduplication \| Fibre Channel \| iSCSI SAN \| Private Cloud \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Devices \| Storage Industry \| Storage Media \| Storage Spending \| Tape Libraries

Cisco MDS 9000 Family: Total Investment Protection sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. PRODUCT LITERATURE: As discussed in this document, the Cisco® MDS 9000 Family provides the leading high-density, highbandwidth storage networking solution along with Integrated Fabric Applications to support dynamic data center requirements. Posted: 04 Nov 2008 \| Published: 04 Nov 2008 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Data Centers \| Fibre Channel \| Networking \| SAN \| Security \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Resource Management

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