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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 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Fibre Channel Switches \| IT Management \| Network Monitoring \| TCO

Virtualized iSCSI SANs: Flexible, Scalable Enterprise Storage for Virtual Infrastructures sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: Enterprises of all sizes are building flexible storage infrastructures using iSCSI and advanced virtualization technologies to achieve a flexible and dynamic IT infrastructure that is simple to manage and scale. Read this white paper to learn more. Posted: 20 Sep 2007 \| Published: 20 Sep 2007 TOPICS: Continuous Data Protection \| Data Management \| Disaster Recovery \| Fibre Channel SAN \| iSCSI SAN \| RAID \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software \| VMware

InfiniBand Software and Protocols Enable Seamless Off-the-shelf Applications Deployment sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc. WHITE PAPER: The focus of this article is to discuss what application developers need to know to enable their IP, SCSI, iSCSI, sockets or file system based applications to operate over InfiniBand. Posted: 04 Mar 2008 \| Published: 01 Dec 2007 TOPICS: Data Management \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Infiniband Architecture \| iSCSI SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software	All resources sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc.

Importance of Unified I/O in VMware® ESX Servers sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Unified I/O in VMware ESX servers deliver many cost and power savings advantages. Posted: 02 Apr 2008 \| Published: 01 Mar 2008 TOPICS: Data Management \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Infiniband Architecture \| iSCSI SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software \| VMware	All resources sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc.

Riding the Virtualization Simplification Wave sponsored by D-Link WHITE PAPER: Server virtualization is now beginning to deliver functional and economic benefits to nearly all classes of enterprises willing to take the virtualization plunge, down to and including organizations with just a few hundred seats. Posted: 07 May 2010 \| Published: 07 May 2010 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Data Centers \| Fibre Channel SAN \| IT Infrastructure \| Networking \| SAN \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Management \| TCO \| VMware

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 TOPICS: 10 Gigabit Ethernet \| Cloud Computing \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Fibre Channel Switches \| IP Networks \| Network Architectures \| Network Capacity \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Performance \| Network Traffic Management \| Networking \| Networking Hardware \| Switched Ethernet \| Switches \| Switching

Avoiding SAN Performance Problems sponsored by Virtual Instruments 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 TOPICS: Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| SAN \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Management Software \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software

ESG Lab Validation Report on Brocade Virtual Fabrics and Director Power Efficiency sponsored by Brocade WHITE PAPER: Hands-on lab testing of Fibre Channel directors including measurements by an independent electrician. Learn how power savings can leave more watts and amps available per rack and per floor tile for bladed servers and storage. Posted: 15 May 2007 \| Published: 01 Mar 2007 TOPICS: Backups \| Cooling Equipment \| Data Center Management \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Fibre Channel Switches \| Power Supplies \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Virtualization \| Switch Fabric \| Tape Libraries

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 TOPICS: Fibre Channel SAN \| High Availability \| iSCSI SAN \| NAS \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Systems \| Storage Virtualization \| Tiered Storage \| VMware

Ethernet SAN or Fibre Channel SAN sponsored by Coraid WHITE PAPER: When it comes to choosing a storage area network (SAN) infrastructure, questions about performance, ease-of-use and cost are sure to come up. This technical brief reviews key differences to consider between Ethernet SAN and Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure when choosing a storage solution for your next virtual server or cloud storage project. Posted: 10 Jan 2011 \| Published: 07 Jan 2011 TOPICS: Fibre Channel SAN \| SAN \| Storage Appliances \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management