WHITE PAPER - The backup system is one of the most expensive and troublesome systems in your data center, and yet it's rarely configured for optimum performance and maximum utilization of resources.
Posted: July 11, 2008 | Published: July 11, 2008


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Disk Backups | Fibre Channel | Hardware | IT Infrastructure | Software | TCP/IP

WHITE PAPER - Server virtualization is one such technology that provides liquidity to IT by delivering improved hardware utilization, physical server consolidation, increased availability and lower data center operating costs.
Posted: July 8, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Fibre Channel | Networking | Tiered Storage

VIDEOCAST - This videocast covers the usage of storage transports for server virtualization, iSCSI's readiness for virtualization deployments, and how to choose between using iSCSI over fibre channel, and vice-versa, in virtualization deployments.
Posted: June 30, 2008 | Premiered: June 27, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel | iSCSI SAN | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

VIDEOCAST - This Videocast Q&A discusses considerations and challenges around managing storage in a virtual infrastructure. Topics include what to consider when choosing a networked storage option and desktop virtualization's impact on storage.
Posted: June 30, 2008 | Premiered: June 30, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel | iSCSI SAN | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - A certain set of baseline feature requirements is emerging for the massively scalable NAS environments, including massive capacity, performance, high availability, and manageability.
Posted: June 19, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Data Management | Fibre Channel | High Availability | NAS | Storage Management | Worms

CASE STUDY - St. Thomas University needed to do something to shorten their backup windows and make everything more reliable and more robust, so they chose Quantum DXi™ appliance.
Posted: June 18, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backups | Fibre Channel | Storage Capacity | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - This eGuide featuring content from Storage Magazine and SearchServerVirtualization provides tips and guidance on what storage professionals need to consider when backing up, managing and tracking their VMs.
Posted: June 12, 2008 | Published: June 12, 2008


Topics:  Backup Software | Fibre Channel | IP SAN | NAS | Server Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - The adoption of virtualization by corporations is being spurred by the availability of high performance multi-core servers that deliver the processing power, memory, and connectivity speeds.
Posted: June 12, 2008 | Published: June 11, 2008


Topics:  Clustering | Data Centers | Data Migration | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | Fibre Channel | High Availability | iSCSI SAN | IT Infrastructure | SAN | Server Virtualization | Storage Infrastructure

WHITE PAPER - This paper provides a basic overview describing the most commonly used storage strategies for clusters, and some emerging technologies that attempt to answer the problems associated with largerscale data distribution in large clusters.
Posted: June 5, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Data Centers | Fibre Channel | NAS | Networking | SAN

WHITE PAPER - This paper provides an overview of some of the cases and outlines the steps required to deploy NPIV on ESX Server 3.5.
Posted: June 3, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | Fibre Channel | SAN | TCO | Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This document provides data center users with valuable information for understanding the benefits of NPIV technology in a VMware environment and practical use cases and deployment scenarios for maximizing these benefits.
Posted: June 3, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Data Centers | Fibre Channel | SAN | Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - The architecture of Emulex LightPulse 8Gbs/s Fibre Channel HBA solutions minimize network disruptions and simplify management, it enables IT organizations to seamlessly transition their data centers to 8Gbs/s Fibre Channel technology.
Posted: June 3, 2008 | Published: December 1, 2007


Topics:  Data Centers | Fibre Channel | SAN | Security | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This paper provides a technology overview of Fibre Channel over Ethernet, discusses the benefits of solution being brought to market by Cisco and Emulex, and highlights some of the deployment scenarios for today's data centers.
Posted: June 3, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | Fibre Channel | LAN | Networking | SAN | TCO

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes a blueprint for a converged Ethernet fabric as a catalyst for network consolidation in the enterprise data center.
Posted: June 3, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2007


Topics:  Data Centers | Fibre Channel | LAN | Networking | SAN

EDITORIAL RESOURCE GUIDE - Read this second issue of the Virtual Data Center E-Zine to learn strategies for taking on two of biggest virtualization challenges: I/O bottlenecks and email system virtualization.
Posted: May 19, 2008 | Published: May 1, 2008


Topics:  BIOS | CPU | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Email Management | Fibre Channel | Microsoft Exchange | Network Performance | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Virtual Machine Monitor | Virtualization Software