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*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 TOPICS:** 10 Gigabit Ethernet \| Cloud Computing \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Management \| Fibre Channel \| iSCSI Protocol \| Network Management \| Networking \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization

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

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

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 TOPICS: ASIC \| Data Centers \| Fibre Channel \| High Performance Computing \| iSCSI Protocol \| SAN \| Storage Management \| Storage Switches

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

10GbE, Servers, Storage and Virtualization – Interoperability Review and Highlights sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: Organizations can benefit from the advantages of 10GbE, consolidation on Dell PowerEdge blade servers, and virtualization with VMware. By implementing 10GbE solutions, organizations can enjoy the economies they hoped to obtain by consolidating and virtualizing their server environment, along with increased performance, reliability, and security. Posted: 12 Aug 2009 \| Published: 09 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Data Center Consolidation \| Ethernet Adapters \| Fibre Channel \| iSCSI Protocol \| Server Consolidation \| Server Hardware \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Devices \| Storage Virtualization \| TCO \| VMware \| VMware ESX \| VMware Infrastructure 3

Improving Business Resilience with Data Replication and Storage Area Network Extension Technology from Hitachi Data Systems and Cisco sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Learn how SAN extension solutions from Hitachi Data Systems and Cisco provide a highly available architecture to guarantee access to data no matter what events befall the organization. Posted: 05 Mar 2007 \| Published: 01 Jul 2006 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel Switches \| SAN

MicroScan De-Duplication Minimizes Replication Bandwidth and Storage Requirements sponsored by FalconStor Software WHITE PAPER: Read this document to learn how FalconStor's powerful MicroScan technology works to minimize duplicate data and help save considerable bandwidth, storage resources, and overhead. Posted: 10 Feb 2009 \| Published: 10 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Continuous Data Protection \| Data Replication \| Disaster Recovery \| Disk Drives \| Fibre Channel \| 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

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 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Disk Drives \| Fibre Channel \| SAN \| Solid State Disks \| Storage Architectures \| Virtual Tape Libraries \| Virtualization Security