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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

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

SAN and Server Virtualization Podcast Transcript sponsored by Nexsan PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This podcast transcript examines the pros and cons traditional Fibre Channel SAN and a slightly newer iSCSI SAN. Posted: 18 May 2009 \| Published: 13 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Fibre Channel SAN \| iSCSI SAN \| NAS \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Appliances \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Devices \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Virtualization

Data Center Servers and Storage E-Book Chapter 3: Selecting Storage in a Virtual Data Center sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel® EBOOK: With Fibre Channel, iSCSI and even prepackaged storage-plus-SAN solutions available, figuring out which makes sense for your particular environment can be tricky. So, when it comes to virtual server storage, choose wisely. Learn provisioning tactics that can help organizations make the most of their storage. Posted: 17 May 2010 \| Published: 17 May 2010 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Fibre Channel SAN \| iSCSI SAN \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Spending \| Storage Systems \| Virtual Machine

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

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Tutorial: Part 1 sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® EGUIDE: This tutorial can help minimize your storage/VDI problems by outlining VDI considerations prior to implementation. Posted: 16 Sep 2011 \| Published: 12 Sep 2011 TOPICS: Fibre Channel SAN \| iSCSI SAN \| NAS \| Storage Capacity \| Storage for File Virtualization/NAS Virtualization \| Storage Optimization \| Storage Provisioning \| Storage Strategy for Virtual Data Centers \| Storage Virtualization \| VDI

The 11th Annual Storage magazine Products of the Year Awards sponsored by TechTarget Storage EZINE: In the February 2014 issue of Storage magazine, we reveal the winners of our 2013 Products of the Year awards, explore 10 disaster recovery don'ts and much more! Posted: 13 Feb 2014 \| Published: 13 Feb 2014 TOPICS: Backup for Virtualized Servers \| Backup Software \| Backups \| Cloud Backup \| Cloud Storage \| Data Deduplication \| Data Replication \| Disaster Recovery \| Fibre Channel SAN \| iSCSI SAN \| Solid State Disks \| Storage Management Software \| Storage Systems

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

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.

Optimizing SAN Connectivity for Microsoft Virtual Server with VMPilot sponsored by Emulex Corporation, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Server virtualization is an important new technology that enables you to reduce data center costs and improve IT's business responsiveness. Download this white paper to learn how one solution can create SAN-enabled virtual machines for your dat... Posted: 07 Jun 2007 \| Published: 01 Nov 2006 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Host Adapters \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Storage Virtualization

Fiber Channel Storage Area Networks Reports