Fibre Channel Reports

EGUIDE: Understanding the costs and trends associated with server virtualization is very important, as well as understanding the role of virtual platforms for your business.

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 | Published: 30 Nov 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This expert presentation transcript describes one organization's approach to virtualization management, its primary drivers, and key components. Discover your various options for reclaiming resources and explore the benefits of standardizing around the delivery of VMs.

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 10 Oct 2011

EGUIDE: Patient care is heavily dependent on not only an up-to-date storage infrastructure, but an environment that will allow for fast and easy data exchange between healthcare providers. In this e-guide, you will be introduced to available options in the networking/storage space and how they might be the right fit for your organization.

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 | Published: 26 Sep 2011

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. Learn provisioning tactics that can help organizations make the most of their storage.

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 | Published: 08 Aug 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this transcript of an interview with disaster recovery expert Ray Lucchesi to learn what's new and exciting, including shared recovery site capability, clustering, and the future of region-wide disaster recovery.

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 | Published: 15 Jun 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this interview transcript, VMware expert Eric Siebert discusses the best way to use NFS for virtual server environments. Discover the benefits and complications that can arise when implementing network-attached storage (NAS) in your virtual server platform and more.

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 | Published: 08 Jun 2011

CASE STUDY: This case study reveals common barriers to virtualization adoption. Find out how to choose an effective switch so you can reduce network costs, enable scalability, and more.

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 | Published: 06 Jun 2011

CASE STUDY: This case study describes the approach one company implemented to deploy, monitor, and maintain a growing number of physical servers. Learn how it addressed their top business challenges and find out what efficiency and flexibility benefits they were able to realize.

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 | Published: 06 Jun 2011

CASE STUDY: This case study explains how one organization planned, designed, and implemented a flexible network architecture that enabled them to better collaborate between departments for improved business outcomes.

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 | Published: 06 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how virtualization has removed many of the data center resource constraints of the past. Find out why management of your IT infrastructure should be integrated and learn how to set your business up for private cloud success.

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 | Published: 01 Apr 2010

EGUIDE: This e-guide will help you improve your storage-area networks (SANs) and fine-tune your storage networks. Find out what steps you should take to prepare your SAN for the worst, and learn what you can do to improve your storage network performance, efficiency and resiliency. Check out this e-guide today!

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 | Published: 14 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper is for IT organizations and service providers who are interested in building loud data centers. Read this paper to learn the complete architectural details with step-by-step instructions to set up and evaluate the two most common block-level storage protocols, FCoE and iSCSI, run over 10 GbE from end-to-end.

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 | Published: 03 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Maintaining peak performance while simultaneously addressing the root cause of SAN errors is challenging. This paper presents a high level summary of the most common SAN problems and explores new ways to dramatically improve application performance and availability.

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 | Published: 01 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Do you have questions regarding SAN acceleration? Learn more about solid state storage, which solid state technologies are currently on the market, and why your enterprise needs solid state storage. This concise white paper is designed to answer frequently asked questions on these topics and more.

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 | Published: 25 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: With the availability of solid-state storage within Version 5 of its SAN Volume Controller, IBM once again delivers outstanding tech-nological innovation to the data center. Read this paper to find out so much more.

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Fibre Channel over Ethernet is extending the reliability benefits and service of Fibre Channels to LANs and other Ethernet networks. Learn how this approach enables flexible, scalable, and simplified data center fabrics that support increasingly powerful applications and growing amounts of data.

Posted: 11 Jun 2010 | Published: 11 Jun 2010

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: In this technical brief we provide an overview of the reasons Data Center Bridging (DCB) is being developed and how it can improve networking in the data center for applications, servers, and storage.

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 | Published: 03 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this article is to examine the unique benefits of Intel® Solid State Drive (Intel® SSD) over traditional HDDs and competing SSDs, and to explore the benefits one could realize in using these new high performance SSDs in storage and embedded applications.

Posted: 24 Feb 2010 | Published: 24 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: The advent of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE), Data Center Bridging (DCB), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)offers enhanced performance and throughput for connecting networked storage to servers. Whether using the Internet SCSI (iSCSI) or Fibre Channel protocols, organizations have a clear path for unifying a network fabric in 10GbE environments.

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is replacing Fibre Channel drives in high performance applications such as online transaction processing, real time analytics & streaming media. The key reasons for this transition are that SAS drives have the same or better reliability and data availability characteristics of Fibre Channel drives but are less expensive.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2009

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: The EMC® CLARiiON® AX4 is a versatile and cost-effective solution for organizations looking for an alternative to server-based storage. The AX4 delivers performance, scalability, and advanced data management features in one, easy-to-use storage solution.

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 | Published: 14 Dec 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This Presentation Transcript breaks down the truth about clustered storage and answers some of the most important questions surrounding the subject. Find out more today.

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 | Published: 13 Aug 2009

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Dell NX4 offers a variety of advanced features that can help organizations achieve storage efficiency and lower TCO, including data deduplication that can reduce required storage capacity and an open API that works with third-party policy engines to enable tiered storage access.

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Organizations can benefit from the advantages of 10GbE, consolidation on Dell PowerEdge blade servers, and virtualization with VMware. By implementing 10GbE solutions, organizations can enjoy the economies they hoped to obtain by consolidating and virtualizing their server environment, along with increased performance, reliability, and security.

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 | Published: 09 Jun 2009

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Dell NX4 offers a variety of advanced features that can help organizations achieve storage efficiency and lower TCO, including data deduplication that can reduce required storage capacity and an open API that works with third-party policy engines to enable tiered storage access.

Posted: 22 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008