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- storage networking: An Essential Guide to Storage as a Key Component of Business Continuation
- Information is a business's primary asset. Historically, data storage was a local issue, either on floppy discs or hard drives. In a data center, storage went to tape and was stored in libraries. Things are more complicated now, especially after September 11th, the natural disasters of 2005 (the Indonesian tsunami...
- White papers 2007-06-14
- Building Power Efficient Solutions With Cisco MDS 9000 Directors
- Power and cooling are surfacing as major concerns in companies of all sizes. Rising energy prices and drastic increases in the density and power requirements of server and storage solutions over the past few years have driven IT managers to consider strategies for reducing power consumption in the data center....
- White papers 2006-12-01
- Investigate the SNIA Shared Storage Model: Key to designing the right storage networking solution
- Designing storage area networks requires an understanding of the upper-layer applications that depend on storage resources as well as the storage architectures available to satisfy them. This sample chapter from Designing Storage Area Networks, Second Edition focuses on the Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA) Shared Storage Model (SSM)...
- Book chapters 2006-07-11
- University of Stuttgart SAN Solution: Cisco Supercomputing storage networking Solution
- The University of Stuttgart is a national supercomputing center providing German researchers access to high-end supercomputing facilities.
- Webcasts 2006-07-11
- Introduction to Modern SCSI Networking Protocols
- This sample chapter from Storage Networking Protocol Fundamentals provides a high-level overview of the Internet Small Computer System (iSCSI) protocol commonly deployed in modern storage networks. This sample chapter from Storage Networking Protocol Fundamentals offers a simplified introduction aimed at quickly familiarizing users to the standard upper-layer...
- Book chapters 2006-05-23
- Hitachi Storage Solutions at Work: Postal Remittance and Savings Bank
- In Taiwan's competitive financial markets, the Postal Remittance and Savings Bank (PRSB) stands above the crowd. The challenges of meeting the continually rising service demands-nationwide, across a rapidly growing population-led PRSB to seek a cutting-edge technology to, support an increasingly mobile and communications-hungry customer base. The bank's management realized that...
- Case studies 2006-05-04
- CNT Embarks on Strategic Supply Chain Management Initiative
- Computer Network Technologies (CNT) is the global specialist in storage networking solutions. CNT wanted to standardize its back-office processes for both domestic and international operations and implement an integrated system from a single vendor, as opposed to a collection of "point solutions" from multiple vendors. CNT chose PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne software...
- Case studies 2006-05-04
- Why SMI-S Compliance Is Key to Efficient Storage Management
- The rapid rise of storage networking has improved the effectiveness of managing storage assets. The downside has been increased complexity from trying to manage numerous heterogeneous storage networking components. Point storage management tools do not have a comprehensive enough view to allow them to address all of the resulting inefficiencies....
- White papers 2006-04-28
- ACAL storage networking Launches Bundle With Cisco and Emulex
- ACAL Storage Networking is Europe's leading independent storage networking distributor. ACAL Storage Networking wanted to offer customers cost-effective, 4 Gbit/s SAN performance. ACAL Storage Networking along with Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions comprising the Cisco MDS 9020 Fabric Switch and the LP1150-F4 HBA from Emulex. Available to Cisco...
- Case studies 2006-04-27
- Raising the Bar for storage networking: Cisco 9513 Multilayer Director Redefines Storage
- Cisco's MDS 9513 Multilayer Director offers scalability, flexibility and ease of management to minimize costs in the data center.
- Webcasts 2006-04-03
- storage networking Security - Part I: A SNIA Technical Tutorial
- This paper series presents one of three Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) booklet tutorials and is reproduced hereunder special arrangement and the expressed permission of SNIA. This series provides an introduction to storage virtualization. This second paper in the series discusses Host-Based, Storage-Based, and Network-Based, In-Band, and Out-of-Band Virtualization, as...
- White papers 2005-10-21
- Project MegaGrid: Infrastructure Design
- This white paper discusses the infrastructure design that enables the Enterprise Grid Computing model. A well-designed infrastructure provides the foundation on which the advanced IP and storage networking technologies are utilized, so that Grid-enabled applications can fully utilize resources in response to fluctuating demands. This paper refers to the Enterprise...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- storage networking Security - Part II
- This paper provides an introduction to the theory of cryptography from a historical perspective, and gives an overview of the different types of cryptography that are employed today and their applications. A general risk assessment process, which can be used to assess the security requirements of a number of different...
- White papers 2005-08-19
- storage networking Security - Part 1
- Storage network security is a relatively new subject, but one that is rapidly gaining in importance in the minds of both users and product developers. This increase is born of a general realization of the increasing importance and value of the information held in on-line systems, and of the separation...
- White papers 2005-08-02
- Cisco Systems SAN Consolidation Cost Reductions Baselines and Results
- Between January 2003 and January 2004, Cisco Systems deployed 25 Cisco MDS 9000 multilayer director switches in five production data centers, displacing the traditional storage networking infrastructure. The largest internal storage area network (SAN) deployment in the company's history, the Cisco MDS 9000 rollout was the first significant installation of...
- White papers 2005-08-01
- storage networking fundamentals: Storage devices
- This sample chapter, taken from Cisco Press' Storage Networking Fundamentals: An Introduction to Storage Devices, Subsystems, Applications, Management, and File Systems, explains the inner-workings of both disk drive and tape drive technologies, shows how they are used in a storage area network (SAN), and outlines each technology's benefits and shortcomings....
- Book chapters 2005-04-26
- Demystifying storage networking DAS, SAN, NAS, NAS Gateways, Fiber Channel, and iSCSI
- Options for connecting computers to storage have increased in a short time. Variations and associated acronyms for storage networking seem to be materializing faster than they can be tracked. Storage networking offers capabilities and flexibilities not previously available, and understanding the technology basics is essential to making the best choices....
- White papers 2001-07-19
- storage networking 101
- This document describes storage networking methods, including history, concepts, and designs, from a high-level introductory stance. The primary objective of this paper is to provide the reader with a baseline understanding of storage networking as preparation for more advanced storage concepts.
- White papers 2001-04-23
- storage networking: Back to Basics
- Rarely has there been a more confusing topic than storage networking. I get confused and this is what I do for a living, so I can only imagine the mind-numbing blather that the poor end-users — who have real jobs — have to deal with. This paper will help make...
- White papers 2001-04-09
- iQstor's iQ1250 IP SAN Provides the storage networking Foundation for School Sport Fundraisers
- When schools want to raise funds for their sports activities they turn to Varsity Gold due to their proven success at high school fund raisers, sports teams, bands, cheer groups, PTAs and community groups. Similarly, when Varsity Gold wanted to better protect their on-line data and improve their workflow, they...
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