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Making IT Invisible: NetApp Storage for Virtual Server Environments sponsored by NetApp WHITE PAPER: Server virtualization provides liquidity to IT by delivering improved hardware utilization, physical server consolidation, increased availability and lower data center operating costs. Posted: 08 Jul 2008 \| Published: 01 Jan 2008 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Fibre Channel \| Networking \| Server Hardware \| Server Management \| Server Software \| Server Virtualization \| Tiered Storage

The Value of Shared SSDs in Enterprise Computing sponsored by QLogic Corporation WHITE PAPER: This paper covers the advantages of the QLogic FabricCache 10000 Series adapters bringing transparent, shared caching to enterprise application environments. It combines a QLogic Fibre Channel adapter with intelligent caching to bring new levels of scalable application performance to existing SAN environments. Posted: 25 Apr 2013 \| Published: 31 Mar 2013 TOPICS: Cache \| Caching \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| SAN \| Server Accelerators \| Server Management \| Solid State Disks \| Solid State Storage

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

FalconStor Continuous Data Protector sponsored by FalconStor Software PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Enter the HP Solutions Demo portal for an interactive flash demo and overview on FalconStor CDP with HP Solutions. Posted: 02 Apr 2009 \| Published: 02 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Continuous Data Protection \| Continuous Data Protection Software \| Data Center Management \| Data Recovery \| Data Replication \| Databases \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Fibre Channel \| iSCSI Protocol \| 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

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

Virtualization Management and Standardizing The Delivery of VMs sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel® PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This expert presentation transcript describes one organization's approach to virtualization management, its primary drivers, and key components. Discover your various options for reclaiming resources and explore the benefits of standardizing around the delivery of VMs. Posted: 10 Oct 2011 \| Published: 10 Oct 2011 TOPICS: Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Management \| Fibre Channel \| SAN \| Server Consolidation \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Virtual Machine

Next Generation Network Management Techniques sponsored by TechTarget Security EZINE: The February edition of the Network Evolution E-zine explore the latest advances in DevOps and uncover what you need to know for working within the movement. Also read several other featured articles! Posted: 02 Feb 2012 \| Published: 02 Feb 2012 TOPICS: 10 Gigabit Ethernet \| Cloud Computing \| Data Center Networking \| Fibre Channel \| Network Architectures \| Network Best Practices \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance \| Network Protocols \| Network Security \| Networking \| Networking Hardware \| Software Development Methodologies \| Software Development Tools \| Switches \| Virtual Machine \| VLAN

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

Server Virtualization: Expert Overview of Costs, Trends and More sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® EGUIDE: Understanding the costs and trends associated with server virtualization is very important, as well as understanding the role of virtual platforms for your business. Posted: 30 Nov 2011 \| Published: 30 Nov 2011 TOPICS: Disaster Recovery \| Disaster Recovery Planning for Virtual Environments \| Fibre Channel \| Hardware \| Network Infrastructure \| ROI \| Server Virtualization \| Software \| TCO \| Virtual Machine \| VM \| VMware

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