Fiber Channel Storage Area Networks

CASE STUDY: The Quantum P-Series tape library provides USinternetworking, a leading enterprise application service provider, with the flexibility and scalability the company and its customers require.

Posted: 12 Jan 2004 | Published: 12 Jan 2004

EGUIDE: This Q&A featuring VMware expert Eric Siebert divulges the advantages and disadvantages of implementing FC SANs to support your virtual server platform.

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 | Published: 11 Oct 2011

ANALYST REPORT: If you're not saving as much money as you'd hoped from your virtualization and consolidation efforts, you can learn from the best practices of the companies that are realizing huge savings. These companies run at least five times more virtual machines per physical host than other companies and use streamlined IT processes.

Posted: 16 Jun 2010 | Published: 16 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper from storage expert George Crump introduces a new category of Ethernet SAN solutions that can deliver an unprecedented price-performance ratio while maintaining easy installation and simplified management. Read on to learn more about this technology and its benefits.

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 | Published: 07 Dec 2011

CASE STUDY: An aging, proprietary enterprise resource planning (ERP) system at Kelly Tractor limited the company's ability to integrate information from separate departments and build new, innovative sales and services tools. Read how the company benefited from Dell and VMware virtualization.

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This report examines a promising new category of technology—Ethernet SAN—that may be poised to disrupt the economics of the storage industry. This ESG Lab report documents hands-on testing of Coraid EtherDrive SAN storage with a focus on usability, scalability, and price-performance efficiency.

Posted: 10 Jan 2011 | Published: 10 Jan 2011

PODCAST: In this podcast, Eric Siebert, a VMware expert and author of two books on virtualization, discusses Fibre Channel (FC) SANs for virtual server environments. Learn about the advantages and disadvantages of implementing FC SANs to support your virtual server platform. Listen to this podcast to learn more.

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 | Premiered: 23 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper looks at how to match the right storage infrastructure with business size — whether it’s 50, 100 or 250 employees. Organizations must consider their needs and future growth in deciding what storage technology to choose. Find out how Dell and Intel technologies can help businesses of these sizes grows.

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper will focus on the advantages and disadvantages of both native FC tape drive and SCSI-to-FC router solutions (both internal, as used in ATL Tape Libraries™, and external).

Posted: 08 Apr 2004 | Published: 08 Apr 2004

WHITE PAPER: IT organizations have the ability to simplify data center connectivity and reduce costs if they consolidate LAN, NAS, iSCI SAN, and Fibre Channel SAN traffic onto a single 10 Gigabit Ethernet wire.

Posted: 29 Nov 2011 | Published: 29 Nov 2011