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FCoE -- Happiness or Hype? by Storage Decisions
the marketing and development of Fibre Channel over Ethernet as well as some viable alternatives to that approach. Industry efforts to promote and update Ethernet...
SAN and Server Virtualization Podcast Transcript by Nexsan Technologies
out there are being attached to Fibre Channel and about 30% are being attached to iSCSI. Those numbers are definitely on an upswing on the iSCSI side compared to past years...
SANs and server virtualization podcast by Nexsan Technologies
out there are being attached to Fibre Channel and about 30% are being attached to iSCSI. Those numbers are definitely on an upswing on the iSCSI side compared to past years...
SMB data storage management by EMC Corporation
learn about iSCSI versus Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs), managing your data backups, and the biggest SAN storage management trends for the year...
Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom Family of Products by Virtual Instruments
virtual IT infrastructure or large Fibre Channel SAN. The VirtualWisdom family of products are designed for IT managers to monitor their virtual IT infrastructures...
Improving Data Center Efficiency with Network and Storage Consolidation by Cisco Systems, Inc.
continuance, improve availability and reduce operational costs. Do more with less! In today's economic climate, businesses need to find ways to improve agility...
Addressing Significant Growth Of Data With The iSCSI Protocol by Dell, Inc.
and less costly to deploy than the Fibre Channel (FC) SAN protocol that is more entrenched within enterprise deployments. The question remains, though, whether iSCSI is...
Storage Choices for Virtual Server Environments by EMC Corporation
mainly using preexisting Fibre Channel storage area networks. For IT professionals who will either upgrade or deploy a new storage environment to support...
The Benefits of Consolidating Servers and Storage into a Single Easy-to-Manage Platform by EMC Corporation
NX4 supports NAS, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel protocols - and has both SAS and SATA drives. Learn how you can consolidate servers and storage to a single platform via...
Cisco MDS Director Rated Best for Reliability and Performance by Cisco Systems, Inc.
that could handle full 8-Gbps Fibre Channel traffic load without reported error or frame loss during any of the tests conducted regardless of the testing...
The Benefits of Running VMware VI3 on Cisco MDS Optimized SAN by Cisco Systems, Inc.
of storage devices, the typical Fibre Channel traffic profile changed. Also, live virtual machine mobility, enabled by VMware VMotion and Storage VMotion, is making...
Swiss manufacturer installs out-of-the-box storage area network in less than half an hour by Dell, Inc.
that was scalable, cost efficient and easy to use. Read this case study to find out how Dell was able to assist with these goals. Challenge
The existing storage...
McAllen ISD simplifies its messaging, storage and backup infrastructure while reducing power and cooling requirements by a projected 86% by Dell, Inc.
simplify its messaging, storage, and backup infrastructure while reducing power and cooling requirements by a projected 86%. CHALLENGE

McAllen...
Sun Storage Free Trial Catalog by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Systems, Sun StorageTek systems, and many more. Read this free trial guide to see which Sun storage solution works best for you. Choose from a variety of...
HP reference configurations for HP and Microsoft Hyper-V solution-guidelines for ProLiant DL160 G6 for Enterprise by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
HP and Microsoft have developed a variety of recommended configurations and services for Microsoft applications, which...
Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer: Root Cause Analysis for Supporting Fault Identification by Hitachi Data Systems
with comprehensive performance and availability monitoring of up to 250 server, network and storage nodes. Hitachi Data Systems introduces Hitachi IT...
Let's Talk About Deduplication by Hewlett-Packard Company
segment, Curtis begins by defining and explaining deduplication. He expands on this with an explanation of file-level and subfile-level deduplication and...
Not "Just a Switch" Anymore -- Data Center "Backbone" Architectures by Storage Decisions
the ramifications for the storage networking infrastructures you have in place. Explore this presentation to learn more. The leading switch vendors have revealed...
Storage Network Performance -- The Weakest Link by Storage Decisions
technologies. Find out what is and is not important as a focus item and discover the systems, the networks and the storage involved in levying information...
Storage Magazine April 2009: The State of Replication by SearchStorage.com
stage in hot storage technologies and is a fundamental component of DR and backup and recovery operations. This issue's cover story explores where best to...
Data Deduplication Background - A Technical White Paper by Quantum Corporation
that can be stored on disk arrays and to increase the effective amount of data that can be transmitted over networks. Read this white paper to learn more...
LEARNING GUIDES
drives: 90 drives
Drive types: Fibre Channel and SATA drives
Drive capacity: 146 GB, 300 GB 10K and 400 GB 10K rpm Fibre Channel drives; 73 GB, 146 GB and 300 GB 15K rpm Fibre...

All disks are not created equal. A Fibre Channel drive might spin at 15,000 rpm, but it's also far too costly and power-hogging to use for low-priority data. Less important...

to data through protocols, such as Fibre Channel or iSCSI.

"The original use of NAS systems was for traditional file serving," says Brendon Howe, vice president and general...

and NAS options, Buening selected a Fibre Channel-based IBM SAN built with IBM System Storage DS3400 arrays with an initial capacity of 3 TB. Since then, Buening was able to...