SmartBiz IT Research Library

WHITE PAPER - The magnetic tape industry has progressed into its third era and the economics of tape for many applications are compelling from an acquisition cost and, more importantly, a cost of ownership perspective.
Posted: November 4, 2008 | Published: November 4, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Data Centers | Data Security | Disk Drives | Fibre Channel | Tape Drives | Tape Libraries | Vendors

WHITE PAPER - This document discusses the need for unified I/O and describes the phases of unified I/O along with FCoE deployment and the benefits of each phase.
Posted: November 4, 2008 | Published: November 4, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Fibre Channel | Network Infrastructure | SAN | Vendors

PRODUCT LITERATURE - As discussed in this document, the Cisco® MDS 9000 Family provides the leading high-density, highbandwidth storage networking solution along with Integrated Fabric Applications to support dynamic data center requirements.
Posted: November 4, 2008 | Published: November 4, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Centers | Fibre Channel | Networking | SAN | Security | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Resource Management

SOFTWARE DEMO - Watch this demo to learn how Cisco MDS 9000 Family 8-Gbps Fibre Channel Modules deliver intelligence and consistent, predictable high performance to support the most demanding storage applications.
Posted: October 24, 2008 | Published: October 24, 2008


Topics:  Cooling Capacity | Fibre Channel | Network Convergence | Network Management | SAN | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | TCO

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Fibre channel advocates say you can't beat storage systems built around that protocol for performance and reliability, yet there is reason to believe it's dominance may not last too long.
Posted: October 23, 2008 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel | Fibre Channel SAN | Fibre Channel Switches | iSCSI Protocol | iSCSI SAN | Statistical Software | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - 8GFC technology is priced at a significant premium over 4GFC and depending on the configuration, deployment of 8GFC may be up to 2X the cost of using 4GFC.
Posted: October 8, 2008 | Published: October 8, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | Fibre Channel | Hardware | SAN | Server Virtualization | Switching | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This report by Clabby Analytics, an independent research firm, examines trends in scale-out system designs and the critical impact that virtualization is having on enhancing overall systems utilization, management and operations.
Posted: October 2, 2008 | Published: October 2, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel | High Availability | IT Infrastructure | SAN | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - This document explains how Fibre Channel will continue to improve and be an important SAN technology.
Posted: October 1, 2008 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  DAS | Fibre Channel | LAN | NAS | RAID | SAN | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Consolidation | Storage Virtualization

CASE STUDY - When engineers for the United States Airforce decided to address growing backup and restore problems, they turned to protecTIER.
Posted: September 29, 2008 | Published: September 27, 2008


Topics:  Backup Software | Continuous Data Protection | Data Centers | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Fibre Channel

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes the ways that SEPATON technology enables customers to get the most value, efficiency, and performance from their TSM environments.
Posted: September 24, 2008 | Published: September 23, 2008


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | Fibre Channel | LAN | Storage Management | Storage Media | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - Read this white paper to learn about an option for storage consolation that delivers up to double the scale, performance and connectivity while offering greater power-efficiency.
Posted: September 10, 2008 | Published: September 10, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | Fibre Channel | VMware | WAN

WHITE PAPER - This paper explores SAS -- a relatively new entry into the disk drive market -- as a very viable replacement for Fibre Channel based (FC) disk drives.
Posted: September 10, 2008 | Published: September 9, 2008


Topics:  Disk Drives | Fibre Channel | IT Managers | SAN | Storage Management | Storage Security | Storage Spending | Storage Systems | TCO

WHITE PAPER - This guide is designed to help you understand the benefits of consolidating your storage by sharing storage from multiple application servers.
Posted: September 8, 2008 | Published: September 8, 2008


Topics:  Data Security | Data Storage | Fibre Channel | Networking | RAID | SAN | Storage Consolidation

WHITE PAPER - When evaluating storage solutions for DR in a virtual environment, there are several aspects you should consider. In this E-Guide discover several concerns to be aware of when planning for disaster recovery in a virtual server environment.
Posted: September 4, 2008 | Published: September 4, 2008


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | Downtime | Fibre Channel | RPO | RTO | Server Virtualization | Storage Virtualization | WAN

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Switches and host bus adapters are available, but 8Gb/sec arrays won't be released until next year.
Posted: September 2, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel