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Best Practices in SAN Migration sponsored by QLogic Corporation WHITE PAPER: Overwhelming data growth has caused many storage administrators to move from older, legacy SANs to newer and more robust solutions. This white paper provides best practices and guidelines to follow when migrating to a new SAN technology. Posted: 28 Aug 2007 \| Published: 01 Mar 2007 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Migration \| Disk Backups \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Fibre Channel Switches \| Legacy Applications Software \| Storage Best Practices \| Tape Backups \| Virtual Tape Libraries

Best Practices: Enterprise SATA Deployment with High Performance and Reliability sponsored by DataDirect Networks WHITE PAPER: Across many organizations, the rapid growth of data is outpacing storage budgets. SATA disk based archive storage is the perfect solution. Download this white paper to learn more about disk based archive storage and see if it will work for you. Posted: 24 Dec 2007 \| Published: 01 Dec 2007 TOPICS: Content Archiving \| Content Archiving Software \| Continuous Data Protection \| Data Management \| Data Recovery \| Disaster Recovery \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| RAID \| Regulatory Compliance \| Serial ATA \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Security

Ethernet SAN or Fibre Channel SAN sponsored by Coraid WHITE PAPER: When it comes to choosing a storage area network (SAN) infrastructure, questions about performance, ease-of-use and cost are sure to come up. This technical brief reviews key differences to consider between Ethernet SAN and Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure when choosing a storage solution for your next virtual server or cloud storage project. Posted: 10 Jan 2011 \| Published: 07 Jan 2011 TOPICS: Fibre Channel SAN \| SAN \| Storage Appliances \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management

Solid State Drive Applications in Storage and Embedded Systems sponsored by Atrato, Inc. WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this article is to examine the unique benefits of Intel® Solid State Drive (Intel® SSD) over traditional HDDs and competing SSDs, and to explore the benefits one could realize in using these new high performance SSDs in storage and embedded applications. Posted: 24 Feb 2010 \| Published: 24 Feb 2010 TOPICS: Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Flash Memory \| High Performance Computing \| Solid State Disks \| Storage Capacity

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.

ESG Lab Validation Report on Brocade Virtual Fabrics and Director Power Efficiency sponsored by Brocade WHITE PAPER: Hands-on lab testing of Fibre Channel directors including measurements by an independent electrician. Learn how power savings can leave more watts and amps available per rack and per floor tile for bladed servers and storage. Posted: 15 May 2007 \| Published: 01 Mar 2007 TOPICS: Backups \| Cooling Equipment \| Data Center Management \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Fibre Channel Switches \| Power Supplies \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Virtualization \| Switch Fabric \| Tape Libraries

The IP Storage Payoff: Turning your investment into efficient, affordable results sponsored by EMC Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines the many data storage challenges facing the IT staff at today's midsize enterprises and discusses how IP-based networked storage can help them overcome these challenges. Posted: 08 Jun 2007 \| Published: 01 Mar 2007 TOPICS: Backups \| Content Archiving \| Data Management \| Data Recovery \| Disaster Recovery \| Fibre Channel SAN \| IP SAN \| iSCSI SAN \| NAS

Importance of Unified I/O in VMware® ESX Servers sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Unified I/O in VMware ESX servers deliver many cost and power savings advantages. Posted: 02 Apr 2008 \| Published: 01 Mar 2008 TOPICS: Data Management \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Infiniband Architecture \| iSCSI SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software \| VMware	All resources sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc.

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

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