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Dell/EMC CX4 Exchange Performance sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: This white paper takes a high-level look at the features and functionality that make the CX4 an excellent choice for Microsoft Exchange and other electronic mail systems. It examines new features, discusses disaster recovery and VMware integration, and provides a brief example of CX4's performance in Exchange environments. Posted: 05 May 2009 \| Published: 08 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Email \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| iSCSI SAN \| Microsoft Exchange \| SAN \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management

Forrester Thought Leadership White Paper: Exploring the Potential Benefits of End-to-End Convergence of Data Center Networks sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper discloses the results of an evaluation of end-to-end storage area network/local area network (SAN/LAN) networking issues including Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) adoption. Posted: 14 Feb 2012 \| Published: 14 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Converged Networks \| Data Center Networking \| Data Centers \| Ethernet Networks \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| iSCSI Protocol \| iSCSI SAN \| LAN \| LAN Hardware \| Network Architectures \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Performance \| Network Traffic Analysis \| Network Traffic Management \| Networking \| Networking Hardware \| SAN

Top 7 Business Reasons for Tapping Your Fibre Channel SAN sponsored by Virtual Instruments WHITE PAPER: Rapid increases in both the operating speeds and general complexity of SAN technologies, exacerbated by the high change rates demanded of enterprise IT organizations, significantly increase demands on the fiber optic physical layer. Check out this white paper to learn more. Posted: 01 Jun 2011 \| Published: 27 May 2011 TOPICS: Downtime \| Fibre Channel SAN \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Infrastructure

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

iSCSI: Superior Storage for Virtualization sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel® WHITE PAPER: iSCSI technology provides superior manageability to Fibre Channel for virtualized environments. Specifically, iSCSI lets users in virtualized environments utilize all the functionality available to non-virtualized systems. Posted: 11 Feb 2010 \| Published: 31 Mar 2007 TOPICS: Fibre Channel SAN \| iSCSI SAN \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization \| Virtual Machine

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

Reducing Power Consumption With Dell/EMC CX4 Series Storage sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: Rising energy costs and growing volumes of information mean is a sign to increase the efficiency of storage systems and reduce power consumption. Employing capabilities such as disk drive spin-down, virtual provisioning, and tiered storage design in Dell/EMC CX4 Series storage arrays helps IT organizations keep energy costs under control. Posted: 29 Jan 2010 \| Published: 29 Jan 2010 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Centers \| Energy Efficiency \| Fibre Channel SAN \| iSCSI SAN \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Virtualization

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.

Dual Mode Fibre Channel and iSCSI SAN - The Best of Both SAN Storage Worlds sponsored by Dell \| EMC WHITE PAPER: Discover how you can get the best of both SAN storage worlds. Download this white paper to learn about a solution that brings together the high performance and reliability of Fibre Channel and the low cost and versatility of iSCSI. Posted: 16 Aug 2007 \| Published: 10 Aug 2007 TOPICS: Continuous Data Protection \| Data Management \| Fibre Channel SAN \| iSCSI SAN \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Security \| TCO \| VMware

InfiniBand for Storage Applications sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc. WHITE PAPER: InfiniBand defines an industry-standard implementation of remote direct memory access, protocols and kernel bypass to minimize CPU overhead allowing computing resources to be fully used on application processing rather than network communication. 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.