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Storage Magazine Online: December 2012 – 6 Hot Storage Technologies for 2013 sponsored by TechTarget Storage EZINE: Our final issue of Storage Magazine Online in 2012 features one of our most popular annual columns: Hot Technologies for Next Year. Explore this month’s cover story, in which our team of editors team up to tell you the six technologies to watch in 2013 - and why they should be on your radar if they’re not already. Posted: 04 Dec 2012 \| Published: 01 Dec 2012 TOPICS: Backups \| Cloud Backup \| Cloud Storage \| Data Deduplication \| Fibre Channel \| iSCSI SAN \| Private Cloud \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Devices \| Storage Industry \| Storage Media \| Storage Spending \| Tape Libraries

Can Your WLAN Keep Up With The Tablet Explosion? sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. EZINE: The Network Evolution predicted 2011 would be a breakout year for networking. See how far users have come in implementing innovative technology or in making traditional methods work well for them. Posted: 06 Dec 2011 \| Published: 06 Dec 2011 TOPICS: 10 Gigabit Ethernet \| Data Centers \| Ethernet Networks \| Fibre Channel \| LAN \| Mobile Device Management \| Network Architectures \| Network Best Practices \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Operating Systems \| Network Performance \| Smart Phones \| Tablet PC \| VM \| Wi-Fi \| WLAN \| WLAN Management

State Agency Collaborates Securely with Outside Organizations sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. CASE STUDY: This case study explains how one organization planned, designed, and implemented a flexible network architecture that enabled them to better collaborate between departments for improved business outcomes. Posted: 06 Jun 2011 \| Published: 06 Jun 2011 TOPICS: Collaboration \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Networking \| Fibre Channel \| Network Architectures \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Switches

Enabling NAS Clusters: The Silicon Storage Appliance sponsored by DataDirect Networks WHITE PAPER: Managing a high volume of servers is difficult and time consuming. Imagine scaling as fast as you need without expensive re-architecting. Discover a next-level solution that enables large-scale shared data clusters via an integrated SAN and... Posted: 16 Jan 2007 \| Published: 01 Jul 2006 TOPICS: Clustering \| Fibre Channel \| High Availability \| High Performance Computing \| Infiniband Architecture \| NAS \| Network File System Protocol \| RAID \| SAN \| Serial ATA \| Storage Appliances \| Storage Capacity

Network Appliance and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Storage Best Practices sponsored by Arrow Electronics, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This technical report reviews the best practices for implementing VMware Virtual Infrastructures on Network Appliance fabric-attached storage (FAS) systems. Posted: 29 Jan 2008 \| Published: 01 Oct 2007 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Data Centers \| Fibre Channel \| iSCSI \| Operations Manager \| RAID \| SAN \| Storage Network \| Storage Provisioning \| Thin Provisioning

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

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

Get the Straight Story on Ethernet Fabrics sponsored by Brocade VIDEO: Every new IT technology offers many opportunities, but also brings along its own challenges. Access this brief video to discover why Ethernet is no different, and why you must adapt and learn the ins and outs of the technology before gaining the benefits. Posted: 24 Feb 2012 \| Premiered: 06 Sep 2011 TOPICS: Ethernet Networks \| Ethernet Protocols \| Ethernet Switches \| Fibre Channel \| Network Architectures \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Networking \| Networking Hardware

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

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 TOPICS: Data Center Design \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Ethernet Cable \| Ethernet Networks \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Fibre Channel Switches

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