WHITE PAPER - 8GFC technology is priced at a significant premium over 4GFC and depending on the configuration, deployment of 8GFC may be up to 2X the cost of using 4GFC.
Posted: October 8, 2008 | Published: October 8, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel | Hardware | SAN | Server Virtualization | Switching | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This report by Clabby Analytics, an independent research firm, examines trends in scale-out system designs and the critical impact that virtualization is having on enhancing overall systems utilization, management and operations.
Posted: October 2, 2008 | Published: October 2, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel | High Availability | IT Infrastructure | SAN | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - This document explains how Fibre Channel will continue to improve and be an important SAN technology.
Posted: October 1, 2008 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  DAS | Fibre Channel | LAN | NAS | RAID | SAN | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Consolidation | Storage Virtualization

CASE STUDY - When engineers for the United States Airforce decided to address growing backup and restore problems, they turned to protecTIER.
Posted: September 29, 2008 | Published: September 27, 2008


Topics:  Backup Software | Continuous Data Protection | Data Centers | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Fibre Channel

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes the ways that SEPATON technology enables customers to get the most value, efficiency, and performance from their TSM environments.
Posted: September 24, 2008 | Published: September 23, 2008


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | Fibre Channel | LAN | Storage Management | Storage Media | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - Fans of the CLARiiON midrange storage family will be pleased with the next-generation CX4 series, the release of which was recently announced by EMC.
Posted: September 10, 2008 | Published: September 10, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | Fibre Channel | VMware | WAN

WHITE PAPER - This paper explores SAS -- a relatively new entry into the disk drive market -- as a very viable replacement for Fibre Channel based (FC) disk drives.
Posted: September 10, 2008 | Published: September 9, 2008


Topics:  Disk Drives | Fibre Channel | IT Managers | RAID | SAN

WHITE PAPER - This guide is designed to help you understand the benefits of consolidating your storage by sharing storage from multiple application servers.
Posted: September 8, 2008 | Published: September 8, 2008


Topics:  Data Security | Data Storage | Fibre Channel | Networking | RAID | SAN | Storage Consolidation

WHITE PAPER - When evaluating storage solutions for DR in a virtual environment, there are several aspects you should consider. In this E-Guide discover several concerns to be aware of when planning for disaster recovery in a virtual server environment.
Posted: September 4, 2008 | Published: September 4, 2008


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | Downtime | Fibre Channel | RPO | RTO | Server Virtualization | Storage Virtualization | WAN

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Switches and host bus adapters are available, but 8Gb/sec arrays won't be released until next year.
Posted: September 2, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Fibre Channel over Ethernet is speeding along the certification path, and now is the time to determine what it can do for you.
Posted: September 2, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Fibre Channel

WHITE PAPER - In this paper Greg Schulz and Jon Toor talks about the industry trends and perspective about the Top Ten I/O Strategies for Green and Virtual data center.
Posted: September 1, 2008 | Published: September 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | Ethernet Networks | Fibre Channel | Server Virtualization | VMware

CASE STUDY - Dell iSCSI solution simplifies storage management for MisterArt.com, supporting 80 percent business growth and nearly two times better performance.
Posted: August 27, 2008 | Published: August 27, 2008


Topics:  Customer Satisfaction | Fibre Channel | Hardware | Productivity | SAN | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | Testing

WHITE PAPER - This white paper provides an architectural overview and configuration guidelines for deploying Microsoft SQL Server 2005 x64 SP2 with Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 x64 Enterprise or Standard Edition on Dell PowerEdge servers with Dell PowerVault.
Posted: August 27, 2008 | Published: August 27, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Databases | Fibre Channel | Hardware | Software | SQL Server | Testing | Windows

WHITE PAPER - This overview of Dell Virtualization Reference Architecture (RA) white paper describes three validated configurations for Dell | VMware and Dell | Citrix XenServer Dell™ edition virtual infrastructures.
Posted: August 27, 2008 | Published: August 27, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel | iSCSI SAN | SAN | Server Virtualization | VMware