Cisco recognizes that many customers are deploying blade servers. These customers often are looking for a simple and flexible SAN connectivity solution for large-scale blade server deployments. Cisco Fibre Channel blade switches running Cisco NPV and FlexAttach offer a highly scalable, flexible, resilient, and manageable SAN connectivity solution for these...
Learn how one county government in the state of Oregon solved the problem of an aging Fibre Channel SAN that could not scale to meet growing needs. This case study discusses how Clackamas County's IT Department replaced an old Fibre Channel SAN with a modular iSCSI SAN solution for central...
Server virtualisation is rapidly gaining market acceptance for server provisioning. The introduction of virtual HBA technology will allow users to combine and leverage virtual servers and storage networks into flexible, secure and reliable solutions. The early generations of blades offered little synergy with virtualisation, but the convergence of blades and...
This paper discusses the core technologies that are used to build and secure Fibre Channel based Storage Area Networks. Fibre Channel is a flexible standards based networking architecture that can be used as a transport mechanism for a number of Upper Level Protocols. The most common Upper Level Protocols are...
Emulex is currently the only vendor offering NPIV support in its HBAs, both traditional and blade-sized, and drivers. NPIV has been implemented cooperatively by Emulex and IBM and is now successfully deployed on the IBM zSeries mainframe product line, an environment where virtual machines are extensively used in demanding production...
This sample chapter, taken from Securing Storage: A Practical Guide to SAN and NAS Security, discusses Fibre Channel SAN security risks. The critical issues associated with SANs, combined with the lack of communication concerning defenses, has created a security gap in storage.This sample chapter from Securing Storage:...
Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software company, specializing in database, middleware, and business applications for managing and automating processes and other critical business infrastructure software. The company wanted to maximize asset utilization and increase storage availability. The company also wanted to decrease management overhead and improve storage TCO. Recognizing...
The world's largest enterprise software company, Oracle develops software for data management, Enterprise Resource Planning ERP, Customer Relationship Management CRM, and supply chain planning. Oracle has offices in more than 145 countries around the world and 68,000 employees. The company needed much more I/O bandwidth. Log data comes in fast....
This ESG Lab report examines the economic excellence of highly scalable EqualLogic iSCSI storage solutions compared to traditional direct attached storage DAS, Fibre Channel storage area network FC SAN, and multi-protocol solutions (defined as systems that provide FC, iSCSI, and NAS connectivity). After testing EqualLogic storage in the lab using...
At more than 40 years old, Dataram certainly isn't a technology start-up, but the memory company has come up with a new approach to storage optimization that could help midsize companies squeeze out more performance from their existing devices. The technology, called XcelaSAN, is an appliance that...
The folks at Citrix are at it again. They are trying to execute a preemptive strike so that their technology will come to be pervasive. It is clear that Citrix is taking a page out of the open source strategy book. This "give something of value away...
The combination of VMware vSphere and Fibre Channel SANs provides substantial CapEx and OpEx savings. Cisco and Emulex are leaders in Fibre Channel technologies and provide scalable, high-performance hardware and software components that fully enable server virtualization in the data center. This paper explains some of the components and concepts...
The blade server market is the fastest growing segment of the server market, with a year-to-year growth rate of 30 percent according to IDC. Server consolidation and virtualization are primary causes of the growth in blade server and blade switch deployments. In addition, the SAN attach rate for blade servers...
Hewlett-Packard on Monday unveiled its answer to making data centers more modular and more cost effective and the target is pretty clear: Cisco Systems. HP's latest entry into the data center wars is dubbed the BladeSystem Matrix and Matrix Orchestration Environment. These products reside in HP's Adaptive...
Is the existing SAN ready for greater performance while lowering Total Cost of Ownership TCO by using 8 Gbps Fibre Channel or Fibre Channel Over Ethernet FCoE By upgrading the EMC Connectrix MDS SAN infrastructure, one can take advantage of the higher speeds and improved reliability to not only reduce...
For any business to be competitive in the current economic climate, its IT department must adapt to conserve Capital Expenditures CapEx, while optimizing Operating Expenses OpEx. As small organizations strive to meet strategic business and application needs, they are often challenged by economic realities to find an innovative solution that...
As the volume and criticality of data continue to grow, companies need efficient, scalable solutions for making data available to servers, applications, and users across the enterprise. By providing a network of storage resources to servers, SANs uncouple storage from individual platforms, allowing data transfer among all nodes on the...
SMS Demag AG is a leading international supplier of plants and equipment for the metallurgy industry. The company is located in Düsseldorf, Hilchenbach, and Hilden, Germany, and has a presence in Italy, Canada, the United States, China, India, and South Africa. SMS Demag AG wanted to lower operating costs, reduce...
The development of Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE opens the door to the real possibility of transporting more than one I/O traffic flow over a Converged Enhanced Ethernet CEE, also called a Data Center Bridging DCB, link. Moving Storage Area Network SAN and Local Area Network LAN traffic onto a...
What storage scenario best complements the VMware virtualized infrastructure? Fibre Channel SAN, iSCSI, NFS - or a combination? Each technology has its advantages. How to choose? The presenter of this webcast explores the differences between the solutions, looking at architectural examples to discover where a particular storage technology or combination...
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