SAN Switches White Papers

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Achieving Enterprise SAN Performance with the Brocade 48000 Director
sponsored by Brocade
WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how IT organizations can leverage the benefits of this SAN director to maximize performance, flexibility, and data availability in mission-critical environments.
Posted: 13 Mar 2007 | Published: 01 Jan 2007

Brocade

Alliance Partner Network
sponsored by Brocade
WHITE PAPER: The Alliance Partner Network (APN) was created to help you overcome challenges like reducing costs, satisfying business compliance requirements and more. Join APN to receive comprehensive training and services that assist you with Brocade solutions.
Posted: 22 Feb 2007 | Published: 01 Feb 2007

Brocade

Why Use Cisco Network Storage Systems for Your Business
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights two new additions to the Cisco Small Business Network Storage System (NSS) line of products. The Cisco NSS2000 Series is a 2-bay network attached storage (NAS) system, and the Cisco NSS3000 Series is a 4-bay system.
Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Managing Access Control through SAS Zoning
sponsored by PMC-Sierra, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is gaining popularity in small SAN environments. Read this white paper to learn about SAS zoning and how it helps IT administrators create more flexible, scalable and efficient server networks that meet their business needs.
Posted: 06 Oct 2005 | Published: 01 Sep 2005

PMC-Sierra, Inc.

Cisco MDS 9000 Family Investment Protection
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper serves as a guide to the investment protection offered between first-generation and second-generation Cisco MDS 9000 Family linecards, supervisor, and chassis.
Posted: 01 May 2006 | Published: 01 Apr 2006

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer: Root Cause Analysis for Supporting Fault Identification
sponsored by Hitachi Vantara
WHITE PAPER: Hitachi Data Systems introduces Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer software with unique Root Cause Analysis functionality. The IT Operations Analyzer is a powerful, proven approach to simplifying IT infrastructure management, with comprehensive performance and availability monitoring of up to 250 server, network and storage nodes.
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009

Hitachi Vantara

Improving Business Resilience with Data Replication and Storage Area Network Extension Technology from Hitachi Data Systems and Cisco
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Learn how SAN extension solutions from Hitachi Data Systems and Cisco provide a highly available architecture to guarantee access to data no matter what events befall the organization.
Posted: 05 Mar 2007 | Published: 01 Jul 2006

Cisco Systems, Inc.

ESG Lab Validation Report on Brocade Virtual Fabrics and Director Power Efficiency
sponsored by Brocade
WHITE PAPER: Hands-on lab testing of Fibre Channel directors including measurements by an independent electrician. Learn how power savings can leave more watts and amps available per rack and per floor tile for bladed servers and storage.
Posted: 15 May 2007 | Published: 01 Mar 2007

Brocade

Best Practices in SAN Migration
sponsored by QLogic Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Overwhelming data growth has caused many storage administrators to move from older, legacy SANs to newer and more robust solutions. This white paper provides best practices and guidelines to follow when migrating to a new SAN technology.
Posted: 28 Aug 2007 | Published: 01 Mar 2007

QLogic Corporation

The Virtual Machine Aware SAN
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the innovative approach introduced by the Cisco MDS 9000 Family to support an end-to-end virtualized SAN environment that is flexible, secure, scalable, and mobile.
Posted: 24 Oct 2008 | Published: 24 Oct 2008

Cisco Systems, Inc.