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The Journey to Unified Computing sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. 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 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Networking \| Fibre Channel \| Memory \| Private Cloud \| Private cloud computing \| Server Virtualization

Unified Visibility Fabric Architecture – A New Approach to Visibility sponsored by Gigamon WHITE PAPER: In this informative white paper, uncover a unified visibility fabric architecture that centralizes network monitoring and management tools for improved and simplified performance and security analysis. Posted: 24 Sep 2013 \| Published: 30 Aug 2013 TOPICS: Application Monitoring \| Application Performance Management \| Bandwidth Management \| Cloud Computing \| Ethernet Networks \| Fibre Channel \| LAN \| Network Architectures \| Network Capacity \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Management Services \| Network Managers \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance \| Network Processing \| Network Processors \| Network Security \| Network Traffic Analysis \| Network Traffic Management \| SAN \| Security Management

Cisco MDS 9000 Family Investment Protection sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper serves as a guide to the investment protection offered between first-generation and second-generation Cisco MDS 9000 Family linecards, supervisor, and chassis. Posted: 01 May 2006 \| Published: 01 Apr 2006 TOPICS: Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel Switches \| IP SAN \| LAN Switches \| Switch Fabric

Enabling NAS Clusters: The Silicon Storage Appliance sponsored by DataDirect Networks WHITE PAPER: Managing a high volume of servers is difficult and time consuming. Imagine scaling as fast as you need without expensive re-architecting. Discover a next-level solution that enables large-scale shared data clusters via an integrated SAN and... Posted: 16 Jan 2007 \| Published: 01 Jul 2006 TOPICS: Clustering \| Fibre Channel \| High Availability \| High Performance Computing \| Infiniband Architecture \| NAS \| Network File System Protocol \| RAID \| SAN \| Serial ATA \| Storage Appliances \| Storage Capacity

Why SAS Matters - Cost Effective Performance with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Technology from Hitachi sponsored by Hitachi Vantara 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 TOPICS: Disk Drives \| Fibre Channel \| SCSI Controllers \| Serial ATA \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Infrastructure

IBM Upgrades SVC with Solid State Drives - Achieves Better Storage Utilization sponsored by IBM 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 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Disk Drives \| Fibre Channel \| SAN \| Solid State Disks \| Storage Architectures \| Virtual Tape Libraries \| Virtualization Security

Forrester Thought Leadership White Paper: Exploring the Potential Benefits of End-to-End Convergence of Data Center Networks sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper discloses the results of an evaluation of end-to-end storage area network/local area network (SAN/LAN) networking issues including Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) adoption. Posted: 14 Feb 2012 \| Published: 14 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Converged Networks \| Data Center Networking \| Data Centers \| Ethernet Networks \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| iSCSI Protocol \| iSCSI SAN \| LAN \| LAN Hardware \| Network Architectures \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Performance \| Network Traffic Analysis \| Network Traffic Management \| Networking \| Networking Hardware \| SAN

The Value of Shared SSDs in Enterprise Computing sponsored by QLogic Corporation WHITE PAPER: This paper covers the advantages of the QLogic FabricCache 10000 Series adapters bringing transparent, shared caching to enterprise application environments. It combines a QLogic Fibre Channel adapter with intelligent caching to bring new levels of scalable application performance to existing SAN environments. Posted: 25 Apr 2013 \| Published: 31 Mar 2013 TOPICS: Cache \| Caching \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| SAN \| Server Accelerators \| Server Management \| Solid State Disks \| Solid State Storage

How to Handle the Growing Number of Traffic Types in your Data Center sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: This white paper details the benefits of I/O consolidation on Ethernet and Fibre Channel Posted: 11 Nov 2013 \| Published: 13 Aug 2013 TOPICS: Data Center Design \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Ethernet Cable \| Ethernet Networks \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Fibre Channel Switches

The Building Blocks of Unified Fabric and LAN/SAN Convergence sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel® WHITE PAPER: This white paper details the benefits of I/O consolidation on Ethernet and Fibre Channel. Posted: 12 Jun 2014 \| Published: 13 Aug 2013 TOPICS: Data Center Design \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Networking \| Ethernet Cable \| Ethernet Networks \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Fibre Channel Switches \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Networking