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whitepaper 40G to 100G - What's All the Fuss About Optical Gigabits?2008-03-01 Nortel Networks
  Preventing a worldwide bandwidth crisis hangs by a thread - a fiber-optic thread thinner than a human hair yet filled with untapped potential. And, that potential within each tiny fiber-optic thread is powerful enough to keep vast amounts of information like YouTube videos flowing at the speed of light, when new network technologies meet the challenge of doing what many said couldn't be done. Today's 10 gigabit per second (10G) optical networks form the high-speed, backbone core for communications, spanning nations and linking continents into a seamless global village.

Tags: Network Technologies, 		  
whitepaper Tornillo Independent School District Solves Reliability Issues, and Makes Way for VoIP and Web Surveillance With D-Link 10GB Switches and Fiber Uplinks2007-11-30 D-Link
  When Armando Gonzales interviewed for Tornillo Independent School District's Network Administrator position, the district's network went down while he was in their office. The outdated switching equipment frequently crashed for unknown reasons. With 10GB connectivity coming out, the district decided that it was the right time to upgrade their switching infrastructure. The extra capacity would allow them to support continued workstation additions and ongoing network expansion initiatives for supporting high-bandwidth applications like VoIP and an IP security surveillance system. The district bought 30 xStack DXS-3350SR switches and 9 DEM-420X XFP 10Gigabit uplink modules to connect the switches via fiber between their campuses and administrative buildings.

Tags: Network Technologies, Network Technologies		   
whitepaper Virtualizing Embedded Switches: The Next Generation in SAN Connectivity2007-11-01 Brocade Communications Systems
  The Brocade Access Gateway feature is the most recent evolution in Fibre Channel (FC) Storage Area Network (SAN) connectivity for blade server technology and it has now been extended to the Brocade 00E, an 8-, 1 -, or 16-port standalone switch. Fabric OS (FOS) 5.3.0 and later enables a Brocade 4 Gbit/sec blade switch or Brocade 200E to be configured in Access Gateway mode. A switch in Access Gateway mode provides full SAN switching performance plus additional data center benefits, including reduced cabling, a smaller footprint, and integrated blade chassis management.

Tags: Storage Hardware, Network Technologies		   
whitepaper Taneja Group: Next-Gen Fibre Channel Storage Systems Market Forecast2007-10-31 3Par
  The Fibre Channel storage market is undergoing significant architectural and technological transition as end user purchasing criteria shift to emphasize price-performance, energy efficiency, capacity optimization, and simplified storage management. A new class of system designs has emerged that offer a simpler, more efficient, high-performance alternative to traditional monolithic and dual-controller architectures. Download this report from Taneja Group for a thorough analysis of the Fibre Channel storage systems market including discussion of the emerging next-generation Fibre Channel storage systems segments and their growth prospects.

Tags: LAN - WAN, Server Hardware, Data Infrastructure, Network Technologies		   
whitepaper Fibre Channel Over Ethernet in the Data Center: An Introduction2007-10-09 Fibre Channel Industry Association
  Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is a newly proposed standard that is being developed by INCITS T11. The FCoE protocol specification maps Fibre Channel natively over Ethernet and is independent of the Ethernet forwarding scheme. It allows an evolutionary approach towards I/O consolidation by preserving all Fibre Channel constructs, maintaining the same latency, security, and traffic management attributes of FC while preserving investments in FC tools, training, and SANs. FCoE recognizes FC as the dominant storage protocol in the data center while giving customers a viable I/O consolidation solution. FCoE simplifies customer environments by using Ethernet and allowing the industry to avoid creating another, separate protocol for I/O consolidation.

Tags: Data Infrastructure, Network Technologies		   
whitepaper A Comparison of EMC CLARiiON and the Network Appliance FAS Array: A Detailed Review2007-10-01 EMC
  The CLARiiON line of storage systems from EMC and the Network Appliance FAS series are both positioned as shared storage platforms for customers interested in Fibre Channel and iSCSI solutions. Network Appliance positions FAS as a general purpose storage system to satisfy a wide range of application needs. Even the smallest IT shops want reliable, highly available systems that will perform consistently as their storage needs grow. This paper describes why CLARiiON storage systems provide superior performance, availability, flexibility, and features when compared with NetApp's FAS series.

Tags: Storage Hardware, Network Technologies		   
whitepaper Pennsylvania Turnpike Takes the Network Appliance Route for 8x Better Tb:admin Ratio0000-00-00 NetApp
  The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission manages 531 miles of roadway engineered for driver safety and comfort. Expanding capacity and adding iSCSI capability to the incumbent vendor's solution would have required a forklift upgrade and additional administrative resources. The Turnpike needed more flexibility and scalability without increasing administrative costs. A clustered NetApp FAS series solution delivers multiprotocol support, high performance and availability, and 8x capacity with no increase in footprint or administrative costs. NetApp also enables high-speed D2D backup and cost savings.

Tags: Network Technologies		   
whitepaper Oracle GIT to Save U.S. $2 Million With Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control and NetApp Fibre Channel SAN0000-00-00 NetApp
  The world's largest enterprise software company, Oracle develops software for data management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and supply chain planning. Oracle has offices in more than 145 countries around the world and 68,000 employees. The company needed much more I/O bandwidth. Log data comes in fast. They needed faster storage, and a lot more of it. The logical decision was to move to a Fibre Channel SAN architecture to provide an immediate boost in performance. As Oracle GIT began to evaluate Fibre Channel solutions, it became clear that NetApp was one key vendor that Oracle GIT should consider.

Tags: Storage Hardware, Network Technologies		   
whitepaper Thin Provisioning in an IBM SAN or IP SAN Enterprise Environment2007-08-28 IBM
  This paper describes how to provision storage efficiently with IBM System Storage N series in a Fibre Channel or iSCSI deployment. Storage efficiency has historically been extremely low because of the difficulty provisioning or changing provisioning to adapt to changing needs with classic storage array architectures. System Storage N series with FlexVol technology provides an extremely flexible paradigm for provisioning, allowing the user to minimize unused space.

Tags: Storage Hardware, Network Technologies		   
whitepaper The University of Tokyo Decodes the Mysteries of the Universe Using Infortrend RAID Storage2007-08-20 Infortrend Technology
  As a leading research university, the University of Tokyo offers courses in essentially all academic disciplines at both undergraduate and graduate levels and conducts research across the full spectrum of academic activity. To manage this vast amount of data, the University of Tokyo needed to construct a system that incorporated a powerful CPU with high processing capability and a high capacity disk array. In the end, the University of Tokyo installed 140 EonStor A16F-G2422 SATA-to- Fibre Channel RAID subsystems housing 16 SATA drives each for a total storage capacity of 1.1 petabytes.

Tags: Management, Network Technologies