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- Fibre Channel Over Ethernet Storage Networking Evolution
- Evolving business requirements underscore the need for high-density, high-speed, and low-latency consolidated networks that enable data center scalability and improve manageability while controlling IT costs. Data centers typically run multiple separate networks, including an Ethernet network for client-to-server and server-to-server communications and a Fibre Channel Storage Area Network SAN. To...
- White papers 2008-05-01
- Cisco MDS 9000 Family: Total Investment Protection
- Evolving business requirements underscore the need for high-density, high-speed, and low-latency networks that improve data center scalability and manageability while controlling IT costs. As discussed in this paper the Cisco MDS 9000 Family provides the leading high-density, high-bandwidth storage networking solution along with Integrated Fabric Applications to support dynamic data...
- White papers 2008-05-01
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- McDATA Moves to Oracle From SAP, Supports Growth With Faster Access to Business Intelligence
- McDATA is the leading provider of storage networking solutions, helping customers build, globally connect, optimize and centrally manage data infrastructures across complex networking environments. The company wanted to resolve scalability and flexibility issues of existing SAP solution, which was scheduled for de-support and reduce custom coding to provide easy upgrade...
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- 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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- AVADirect Nano Cube
- AVADirect's $2,266 Nano Cube tries to take on Shuttle's XPC H7 5800 at its own small form factor game. Both systems come with smaller-than-normal SFF cases, and each requires sacrifices, even more than with a standard SFF PC, in exchange for its tiny dimensions. Therein lies our problem with this...
- Product reviews 2009-11-04
- Averatec D1130 All-in-One
- The Averatec D1130 All-In-One is a stripped-down version of the D1133 we reviewed last month, and while this version cuts the price down to only $399, it also strips away many of the features that gave the higher-end model some value. With its puny 1.6GHz Intel Atom chip, 1GB of...
- Product reviews 2009-10-30
- Juniper eyes midmarket, aims for Cisco
- Going by a slew of announcements the company unveiled this week, Juniper Networks appears to have set its eyes on new markets. Going by a slew of announcements the company unveiled this week, Juniper Networks appears to have set its eyes on new markets, in particular, segments currently dominated...
- News items 2009-10-28
- TP-Link TL-WR741ND Wireless Lite N Router
- At less than $40, the TP-Link TL-WR741ND Wireless Lite N Router is among the cheapest 802.11n routers, if not the cheapest, you can find on the market. It's also the first we've reviewed that supports the single-stream standard and therefore caps at only 150Mbps hence the Lite designation. Other Wireless-N...
- Product reviews 2009-10-26
- HP's Hurd: Cloud computing has its limits (especially when you face 1,000 attacks a day)
- HP CEO Mark Hurd is big on cloud computing, but acknowledges its limits. For instance, HP "wouldn't put anything material in nature outside the firewall." The message: The cloud has its place, but there's a vast difference between private and public computing. [caption id="attachment_26254" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Credit:...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
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