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Ethernet SAN or Fibre Channel SAN sponsored by Coraid WHITE PAPER: When it comes to choosing a storage area network (SAN) infrastructure, questions about performance, ease-of-use and cost are sure to come up. This technical brief reviews key differences to consider between Ethernet SAN and Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure when choosing a storage solution for your next virtual server or cloud storage project. Posted: 10 Jan 2011 \| Published: 07 Jan 2011 TOPICS: Fibre Channel SAN \| SAN \| Storage Appliances \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management

InfiniBand Software and Protocols Enable Seamless Off-the-shelf Applications Deployment sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc. WHITE PAPER: The focus of this article is to discuss what application developers need to know to enable their IP, SCSI, iSCSI, sockets or file system based applications to operate over InfiniBand. Posted: 04 Mar 2008 \| Published: 01 Dec 2007 TOPICS: Data Management \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Infiniband Architecture \| iSCSI SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software	All resources sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc.

Forrester Thought Leadership White Paper: Exploring the Potential Benefits of End-to-End Convergence of Data Center Networks sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper discloses the results of an evaluation of end-to-end storage area network/local area network (SAN/LAN) networking issues including Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) adoption. Posted: 14 Feb 2012 \| Published: 14 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Converged Networks \| Data Center Networking \| Data Centers \| Ethernet Networks \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| iSCSI Protocol \| iSCSI SAN \| LAN \| LAN Hardware \| Network Architectures \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Performance \| Network Traffic Analysis \| Network Traffic Management \| Networking \| Networking Hardware \| SAN

Top 7 Business Reasons for Tapping Your Fibre Channel SAN sponsored by Virtual Instruments WHITE PAPER: Rapid increases in both the operating speeds and general complexity of SAN technologies, exacerbated by the high change rates demanded of enterprise IT organizations, significantly increase demands on the fiber optic physical layer. Check out this white paper to learn more. Posted: 01 Jun 2011 \| Published: 27 May 2011 TOPICS: Downtime \| Fibre Channel SAN \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Infrastructure

Reducing Power Consumption With Dell/EMC CX4 Series Storage sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: Rising energy costs and growing volumes of information mean is a sign to increase the efficiency of storage systems and reduce power consumption. Employing capabilities such as disk drive spin-down, virtual provisioning, and tiered storage design in Dell/EMC CX4 Series storage arrays helps IT organizations keep energy costs under control. Posted: 29 Jan 2010 \| Published: 29 Jan 2010 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Centers \| Energy Efficiency \| Fibre Channel SAN \| iSCSI SAN \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Virtualization

Importance of Unified I/O in VMware® ESX Servers sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Unified I/O in VMware ESX servers deliver many cost and power savings advantages. Posted: 02 Apr 2008 \| Published: 01 Mar 2008 TOPICS: Data Management \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Infiniband Architecture \| iSCSI SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software \| VMware	All resources sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc.

Riding the Virtualization Simplification Wave sponsored by D-Link WHITE PAPER: Server virtualization is now beginning to deliver functional and economic benefits to nearly all classes of enterprises willing to take the virtualization plunge, down to and including organizations with just a few hundred seats. Posted: 07 May 2010 \| Published: 07 May 2010 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Data Centers \| Fibre Channel SAN \| IT Infrastructure \| Networking \| SAN \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Management \| TCO \| VMware

iSCSI vs. Fibre Channel: Three Reasons Not To Choose Either sponsored by Coraid WHITE PAPER: Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage systems are not delivering the price-performance and agility at the storage layer required to keep up with the new virtualized compute layer. This paper explores a third storage networking technology, Ethernet SAN, and why you don’t have to choose between iSCSI and Fibre Channel. Posted: 05 May 2011 \| Published: 29 Apr 2011 TOPICS: Fibre Channel SAN \| iSCSI SAN \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management

Best Practices: Enterprise SATA Deployment with High Performance and Reliability sponsored by DataDirect Networks WHITE PAPER: Across many organizations, the rapid growth of data is outpacing storage budgets. SATA disk based archive storage is the perfect solution. Download this white paper to learn more about disk based archive storage and see if it will work for you. Posted: 24 Dec 2007 \| Published: 01 Dec 2007 TOPICS: Content Archiving \| Content Archiving Software \| Continuous Data Protection \| Data Management \| Data Recovery \| Disaster Recovery \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| RAID \| Regulatory Compliance \| Serial ATA \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Security

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 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Fibre Channel Switches \| IT Management \| Network Monitoring \| TCO