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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

Selecting Storage in a Virtual Data Center sponsored by Dell Compellent 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 TOPICS: Fibre Channel \| iSCSI SAN \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage for Virtualized Servers \| Storage Management \| Storage Strategy for Virtual Data Centers

MicroScan De-Duplication Minimizes Replication Bandwidth and Storage Requirements sponsored by FalconStor Software WHITE PAPER: Read this document to learn how FalconStor's powerful MicroScan technology works to minimize duplicate data and help save considerable bandwidth, storage resources, and overhead. Posted: 10 Feb 2009 \| Published: 10 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Continuous Data Protection \| Data Replication \| Disaster Recovery \| Disk Drives \| Fibre Channel \| Storage Management

Best Practices Guide: Emulex Virtual HBA® Solutions and VMware® ESX Server 3.5 sponsored by Emulex Corporation, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This paper provides an overview of some of the cases and outlines the steps required to deploy NPIV on ESX Server 3.5. Posted: 03 Jun 2008 \| Published: 01 Apr 2008 TOPICS: Data Centers \| Fibre Channel \| SAN \| TCO \| Virtualization \| VMware

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

Best Practices: Enterprise SATA Deployment with High Performance and Reliability sponsored by DataDirect Networks WHITE PAPER: Across many organizations, the rapid growth of data is outpacing storage budgets. SATA disk based archive storage is the perfect solution. Download this white paper to learn more about disk based archive storage and see if it will work for you. Posted: 24 Dec 2007 \| Published: 01 Dec 2007 TOPICS: Content Archiving \| Content Archiving Software \| Continuous Data Protection \| Data Management \| Data Recovery \| Disaster Recovery \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| RAID \| Regulatory Compliance \| Serial ATA \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Security

The Latest Data Storage Networking Infrastructure Trends sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. EGUIDE: IT shops looking to consolidate their data centers and virtualize servers have to weigh the latest storage networking technology developments as they plot any infrastructure upgrade. This SearchStorage.com E-Guide explores the current state of data storage networking infrastructure before you make an upgrade. Posted: 25 Apr 2012 \| Published: 25 Apr 2012 TOPICS: Converged Networks \| Ethernet Networks \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Infiniband Architecture \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Optimization \| Storage Strategy for Virtual Data Centers

Backup School 2009 sponsored by EMC Backup and Recovery Solutions PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This Advanced Backup School seminar presentation is guaranteed to provide you with time-tested advice and techniques that will make backup easier. Renowned backup guru W. Curtis Preston will review the basics - but will also be going into in-depth detail on the newest issues, technologies, and solutions surrounding backup. Posted: 27 May 2009 \| Published: 26 May 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Compression \| Data Deduplication \| Data Recovery \| Data Replication \| Disk Backups \| Disk Storage Systems \| Fibre Channel

Data center networks: How to optimize Ethernet sponsored by Brocade EGUIDE: Access this e-guide to read about top considerations to deal with the numerous new demands placed on the data center Ethernet. Posted: 07 Dec 2011 \| Published: 07 Dec 2011 TOPICS: 10 Gigabit Ethernet \| Data Center Networking \| Data Centers \| Ethernet Networks \| Fibre Channel \| iSCSI SAN \| LAN \| Network Design \| Network Management \| Networking \| VLAN

E-Guide: Improve your performance and avoid bottlenecks in your storage networks sponsored by PC Mall 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 TOPICS: Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Host Adapters \| RAID \| SAN \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Switches \| Storage Systems

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