Fiber Channel SAN Reports

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

Coraid

Deploying Brocade VDX 6720 Data Center Switches in Enterprise Data Centers
sponsored by Brocade
WHITE PAPER: Brocade VDX 6720 Data Center Switches are specifically designed to improve network utilization, maximize application availability, increase scalability, and dramatically simplify network architecture in virtualized data centers.
Posted: 13 Dec 2011 | Published: 13 Dec 2011

Brocade

Introduction to using VMware vSphere with Dell/EMC Unified Storage
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This document provides a detailed overview of using EMC Celerra with VMware vSphere 4. VMware vSphere is an infrastructure virtualization suite that provides virtualization, management, resource optimization, application availability, and operational automation capabilities in an integrated package.
Posted: 13 Jul 2010 | Published: 01 May 2009

DellEMC and Intel®

Flexible Storage Enables Growth
sponsored by Dell | EMC
CASE STUDY: The AX4-5 has allowed McNeil to stand shoulder-to shoulder with much larger enterprises when it comes to data storage sophistication and efficiency.
Posted: 10 Jun 2008 | Published: 10 Jun 2008

Dell | EMC

Optimizing Management efficiency for Storage Infrastructures
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: The Dell/EMC NS family of unified storage enables organizations to easily and cost-effectively consolidate both unstructured file-system data and structured application data into a single shared storage system - helping organizations control costs, streamline management, and enhance storage availability and performance.
Posted: 13 Jul 2010 | Published: 13 Jul 2010

DellEMC and Intel®

SAN Director Power Calculators
sponsored by Brocade
ASSESSMENT TOOL: Which director draws less power, the Brocade 48000 or the Cisco MDS 9513? Calculate environmental characteristics (AC power draw, heat generated), as well as port and bandwidth performance for the directors based on the number of blades present
Posted: 16 May 2007 | Published: 16 May 2007

Brocade

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

Dell EqualLogic TCO Analysis: The Economics of EqualLogic Virtualized iSCSI Storage
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
ANALYST REPORT: This ESG Lab report examines the economic excellence of highly scalable EqualLogic iSCSI storage solutions compared to traditional direct attached storage (DAS), Fibre Channel storage area network (FC SAN), and multi-protocol solutions (defined as systems that provide FC, iSCSI, and NAS connectivity).
Posted: 21 Jun 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2009

DellEMC and Intel®

InfiniBand for Storage Applications
sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: InfiniBand defines an industry-standard implementation of remote direct memory access, protocols and kernel bypass to minimize CPU overhead allowing computing resources to be fully used on application processing rather than network communication.
Posted: 04 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Dec 2007

All resources sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc.

Data Center Servers and Storage E-Book Chapter 3: Selecting Storage in a Virtual Data Center
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel®
EBOOK: With Fibre Channel, iSCSI and even prepackaged storage-plus-SAN solutions available, figuring out which makes sense for your particular environment can be tricky. So, when it comes to virtual server storage, choose wisely. Learn provisioning tactics that can help organizations make the most of their storage.
Posted: 17 May 2010 | Published: 17 May 2010

Dell, Inc. and Intel®