Fibre Channel Storage

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

WHITE PAPER: Unified networking over the 10 Gigabit Ethernet in the data center offers numerous benefits for the virtualized data center.

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 | Published: 30 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: In the on-going war between storage technologies, Fibre Channel and iSCSI continue to battle it out. Both have strong arguments to recommend them, and flaws to consider. How do you choose? Read this white paper to find out.

Posted: 10 Dec 2010 | Published: 10 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This ESG lab review explores the results from hands-on testing of an emerging SAN solution designed to meet today's growing storage challenges. In this paper, learn how this integrated technology can deliver an unprecedented price-performance ratio while maintaining easy installation and simplified management.

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: The protocol utilized to transport data between servers and storage for High Performance Computing (HPC) and to define a Storage Area Network (SAN) is Fibre Channel(FC). Fibre Channel is an "invisible" protocol, because it is only known to the technicians that implement it and keep it working. This paper will provide an overview of this technology.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 25 Jan 2010

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 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

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 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