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Coraid EtherDrive Storage is ESG Lab Proven sponsored by Coraid WHITE PAPER: This ESG lab review explores the results from hands-on testing of an emerging SAN solution designed to meet today's growing storage challenges. In this paper, learn how this integrated technology can deliver an unprecedented price-performance ratio while maintaining easy installation and simplified management. Posted: 07 Dec 2011 \| Published: 01 Mar 2011 TOPICS: Fibre Channel SAN \| SAN \| SAN and Virtualization \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization

Optimizing Management efficiency for Storage Infrastructures sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: The Dell/EMC NS family of unified storage enables organizations to easily and cost-effectively consolidate both unstructured file-system data and structured application data into a single shared storage system - helping organizations control costs, streamline management, and enhance storage availability and performance. Posted: 13 Jul 2010 \| Published: 13 Jul 2010 TOPICS: Fibre Channel SAN \| High Availability \| iSCSI SAN \| NAS \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Systems \| Storage Virtualization \| Tiered Storage \| VMware

NetApp FAS2240 - An Inside Look sponsored by NetApp WHITE PAPER: This article takes an inside look at the unique design features of the NetApp FAS2240, including: Integration of controllers within NetApp SAS disk shelves; I/O and performance enhancements; New resiliency and availability features. Posted: 10 Oct 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2012 TOPICS: Data Management \| Fibre Channel SAN \| iSCSI SAN \| NAS \| SAN \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Optimization \| Storage Systems

Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer: Root Cause Analysis for Supporting Fault Identification sponsored by Hitachi Vantara WHITE PAPER: Hitachi Data Systems introduces Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer software with unique Root Cause Analysis functionality. The IT Operations Analyzer is a powerful, proven approach to simplifying IT infrastructure management, with comprehensive performance and availability monitoring of up to 250 server, network and storage nodes. Posted: 04 Jun 2009 \| Published: 01 May 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Fibre Channel Switches \| IT Management \| Network Monitoring \| TCO

InfiniBand Software and Protocols Enable Seamless Off-the-shelf Applications Deployment sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc. WHITE PAPER: The focus of this article is to discuss what application developers need to know to enable their IP, SCSI, iSCSI, sockets or file system based applications to operate over InfiniBand. Posted: 04 Mar 2008 \| Published: 01 Dec 2007 TOPICS: Data Management \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Infiniband Architecture \| iSCSI SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software	All resources sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, 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 TOPICS: Converged Networks \| Data Center Networking \| Data Centers \| Ethernet Networks \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| iSCSI Protocol \| iSCSI SAN \| LAN \| LAN Hardware \| Network Architectures \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Performance \| Network Traffic Analysis \| Network Traffic Management \| Networking \| Networking Hardware \| SAN

10 Gigabit Ethernet: Unifying iSCSI and Fibre Channel in a Single Network Fabric sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: The advent of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE), Data Center Bridging (DCB), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)offers enhanced performance and throughput for connecting networked storage to servers. Whether using the Internet SCSI (iSCSI) or Fibre Channel protocols, organizations have a clear path for unifying a network fabric in 10GbE environments. Posted: 23 Feb 2010 \| Published: 01 Sep 2009 TOPICS: 10 Gigabit Ethernet \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| iSCSI SAN \| Network Architectures \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| SAN \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management

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 TOPICS: Data Center Design \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Networking \| Ethernet Cable \| Ethernet Networks \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Fibre Channel Switches \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Networking

InfiniBand for Storage Applications sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc. WHITE PAPER: InfiniBand defines an industry-standard implementation of remote direct memory access, protocols and kernel bypass to minimize CPU overhead allowing computing resources to be fully used on application processing rather than network communication. Posted: 04 Mar 2008 \| Published: 01 Dec 2007 TOPICS: Data Management \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Infiniband Architecture \| iSCSI SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software	All resources sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc.

Introduction to using VMware vSphere with Dell/EMC Unified Storage sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: This document provides a detailed overview of using EMC Celerra with VMware vSphere 4. VMware vSphere is an infrastructure virtualization suite that provides virtualization, management, resource optimization, application availability, and operational automation capabilities in an integrated package. Posted: 13 Jul 2010 \| Published: 01 May 2009 TOPICS: Data Deduplication \| Fibre Channel SAN \| iSCSI SAN \| NAS \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Provisioning \| Storage Systems \| Storage Virtualization \| VMware