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IBM Upgrades SVC with Solid State Drives - Achieves Better Storage Utilization
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: With the availability of solid-state storage within Version 5 of its SAN Volume Controller, IBM once again delivers outstanding tech-nological innovation to the data center. Read this paper to find out so much more.
Posted: 20 Oct 2010 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

IBM

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

Virtual Instruments

How to Handle the Growing Number of Traffic Types in your Data Center
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This white paper details the benefits of I/O consolidation on Ethernet and Fibre Channel
Posted: 11 Nov 2013 | Published: 13 Aug 2013

DellEMC and Intel®

Brocade FCoE Solutions for I/O Convergence
sponsored by Brocade
WHITE PAPER: Fibre Channel over Ethernet is extending the reliability benefits and service of Fibre Channels to LANs and other Ethernet networks. Learn how this approach enables flexible, scalable, and simplified data center fabrics that support increasingly powerful applications and growing amounts of data.
Posted: 11 Jun 2010 | Published: 11 Jun 2010

Brocade

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

Emulex Corporation, Inc.

Forrester Thought Leadership White Paper: Exploring the Potential Benefits of End-to-End Convergence of Data Center Networks
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper discloses the results of an evaluation of end-to-end storage area network/local area network (SAN/LAN) networking issues including Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) adoption.
Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

Cisco Systems, Inc.

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

QLogic Corporation

Intel® Cloud Builder Guide to Cloud Design and Deployment on Intel® Platforms: NetApp* Unified Networking and Storage: 10GbE FCoE and iSCSI
sponsored by Intel
WHITE PAPER: This paper is for IT organizations and service providers who are interested in building loud data centers. Read this paper to learn the complete architectural details with step-by-step instructions to set up and evaluate the two most common block-level storage protocols, FCoE and iSCSI, run over 10 GbE from end-to-end.
Posted: 03 Feb 2011 | Published: 03 Feb 2011

Intel

The Building Blocks of Unified Fabric and LAN/SAN Convergence
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This white paper details the benefits of I/O consolidation on Ethernet and Fibre Channel.
Posted: 12 Jun 2014 | Published: 13 Aug 2013

Dell, Inc. and Intel®

Achieving Enterprise SAN Performance with the Brocade 48000 Director
sponsored by Brocade
WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how IT organizations can leverage the benefits of this SAN director to maximize performance, flexibility, and data availability in mission-critical environments.
Posted: 13 Mar 2007 | Published: 01 Jan 2007

Brocade