Optical Switches

WHITE PAPER: This white paper addresses twelve common issues that network administrators should examine when troubleshooting network problems.

Posted: 12 Dec 2008 | Published: 12 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This document describes how users of IBM z/OS Global Mirror can reduce costs and improve performance with a tightly integrated Cisco® MDS 9000 Family solution.

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 | Published: 29 Dec 2009

CASE STUDY: Coca Cola Bottling Company adopted 10 Gigabit Ethernet, consolidating from 80 servers to 4 and reducing cabling costs.

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 | Published: 18 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research shows that virtualization has rapidly become ubiquitous and pervasive. Around 90% of enterprises have already implemented virtualization (79% in production), and 60% for more than 12 months.

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 | Published: 27 Jan 2010

RESOURCE CENTER: This research guide will help you select the best Network Design and Management solution for your company. It provides Network Design and Management information on Network Design and Management products.

Posted: 20 Nov 2006 | Published: 20 Nov 2006

WHITE PAPER: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) emerges as one of the critical areas of focus as these data centers virtualize, unify, centralize, and scale out their storage resources. This document discusses some of the critical challenges related to the BC/DR solutions and how the Cisco MDS 9000 I/O Accelerator (IOA) addresses each of them.

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 | Published: 29 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Today's data centers are faced with many challenges such as consolidation, resources optimization, power, cooling, cost reduction and more. Cisco foresaw these requirements and developed Virtual Storage Area Networks (VSANs) in 2002 to address these issues in the data center.

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 | Published: 29 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses key issues surrounding configuration management and compliance, such as the IT department's need to lower costs, increase management flexibility and control, and increase responsiveness to business needs and requirements.

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 | Published: 08 Jan 2009

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Xiotech’s Emprise 5000 system is a revolutionary concept in data storage. It is built on patented Intelligent Storage Element (ISE™) technology—a perfectly balanced building block of performance, reliability, and scalability.

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 | Published: 23 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Reducing power consumption in a data center is one of the top priorities for IT professionals. When trying to design an energy-efficient data center, it is important to take a holistic view of the entire data center, comparing the solutions for total power consumption and weighing the costs and benefits.

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 | Published: 29 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: This guide addresses the challenges network professionals face when it comes to network troubleshooting and outlines eight key steps every technician should know to aid in successful troubleshooting.

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 | Published: 27 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper looks at the ecological impact of a business's entire IT infrastructure and provides the CIO with a holistic prospective to a business's carbon footprint.

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 | Published: 18 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: The way a switch learns Ethernet (MAC) addresses is by inspecting the Ethernet frame and recording the source MAC address in a dynamic table. The switch will also associate a learned MAC address with a port. It can then make intelligent forwarding decisions based on the destination MAC address. This white paper illustrates the process.

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 | Published: 29 Jun 2009

ANALYST REPORT: WAN optimization controllers seek to improve applications performance and reduce bandwidth requirements by intelligently managing traffic across the WAN. This analyst report presents a snapshot of the current market situation as well the results and explanation of Gartner's study of nine separate WOC vendors. Read the full report to learn more.

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 | Published: 10 Jul 2009

VIDEO: This video compares Microsoft Virtualization to VMware and outlines the additional cost for VMware because they require four layers - hardware, virtualization, operating system and applications and Microsoft only requires three - hardware, operating system with virtualization, and applications.

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 | Premiered: 21 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: This document details the four available networking configurations for running Hyper-V on Dell™ PowerEdge™ systems. It also discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each networking configuration with an emphasis on typical Dell system configurations.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009

ANALYST REPORT: Established LAN design practices were created for an environment of limited switch performance. Today's high-capacity switches allow new design approaches, thus reducing cost and complexity in campus and data center LANs. Read this Gartner report to learn about maximizing LAN performance by minimizing LAN switch Tiers.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 25 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: The ability to access and update Lotus Domino applications can be a simple and effective way to improve efficiency. Read this paper and learn how easy it can be to create BlackBerry applications that integrate with your Lotus Domino applications.

Posted: 18 Aug 2008 | Published: 18 Aug 2008

WHITE PAPER: File sharing and social network activity can dramatically hinder your network performance. This white paper details how Blue Coat helps you manage recreational applications today.

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 20 Apr 2009

CASE STUDY: NetApp met business and technical needs by using Cisco® Nexus switches in the new East Coast data center to build a cloud-computing environment; Application virtualization contributed to 40 percent savings on infrastructure.

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 | Published: 30 Dec 2009

EDITORIAL RESOURCE GUIDE: This E-Guide explains the changes in traditional network management and how Web 2.0, SOA, IMS and other application-heavy delivery platforms are changing the management requirements.

Posted: 05 Aug 2008 | Published: 05 Aug 2008

RESOURCE CENTER: This Networking Solutions Resource Center was developed to bring the latest information on networking technology to today's IT pros. The videos, reports, whitepapers, podcasts and other materials that you'll find here were created to show you how your company's networks can help the people who work there be more efficient and productive every day.

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 | Published: 06 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how new hardware-based technology, could help reduce the incidence of notebook theft. The result can be better protection of assets and sensitive data on notebooks, rapid reactivation when systems are returned, and reduced business risk.

Posted: 14 Dec 2009 | Published: 14 Dec 2009

EGUIDE: In this Pocket Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com, Dell and VMware, discover the central tasks in the assessment and planning stages of a virtualization project.

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 | Published: 22 Jun 2009

CASE STUDY: Alenia Aeronautica, an Italian aviation company, wanted to increase processing speeds so that its engineers could run complex electromagnetic equations quickly and cost-effectively. Read this case study to see what solutions Dell had to offer.

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Published: 24 Sep 2009