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Network Appliance and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Storage Best Practices sponsored by Arrow Electronics, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This technical report reviews the best practices for implementing VMware Virtual Infrastructures on Network Appliance fabric-attached storage (FAS) systems. Posted: 29 Jan 2008 \| Published: 01 Oct 2007 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Data Centers \| Fibre Channel \| iSCSI \| Operations Manager \| RAID \| SAN \| Storage Network \| Storage Provisioning \| Thin Provisioning

Extreme Networks Solution with NEC sponsored by Extreme Networks WHITE PAPER: Explore how using a 1 GbE, 10 GbE, or 40 GbE hardware plane is critical to achieving the interoperability and multi-site capabilities needed for a successful software-defined networking (SDN) initiative. Posted: 29 Aug 2013 \| Published: 30 Apr 2013 TOPICS: Data Center Design \| Data Center Networking \| Ethernet Switches \| Network Architectures \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance \| Network Protocols \| Networking \| Networking Hardware \| Switched Ethernet \| Switches \| Switching

Adaptive Packet Filtering sponsored by Gigamon WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores many technical processes of adaptive packet filtering, including filtering on FCoE traffic, mutli-encap filtering, and much more. Posted: 03 Apr 2014 \| Published: 31 Dec 2013 TOPICS: Network Best Practices \| Network Capacity \| Network Management \| Network Management Protocols \| Network Management Services \| Network Protocols \| Networking \| Packet Switching

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

Facilitating “sound practices” in risk management with IBM OpenPages ORM sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses operational risk management (ORM) in the context of "Sound Practices for the Management and Supervision of Operational Risk," a paper from the Basel Committee. Posted: 08 Feb 2012 \| Published: 08 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Compliance (Finance) \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Risk Assessment \| Risk Management \| Standards

How to Save Time and Money Making Your Transition to IPv6 sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses 9 strategies that can save your business time and money while transitioning to IPv6, by slowing the need for replacements and mitigating risks. Posted: 10 Oct 2011 \| Published: 10 Oct 2011 TOPICS: Network Best Practices \| Network Management \| Network Management Protocols \| Network Managers \| Network Performance \| Network Protocols \| Network Security \| Networking

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

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