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Fibre Channel

ALSO CALLED: Fiber Channel and Fibre
DEFINITION: Fibre Channel is a technology for transmitting data between computer devices at data rates of up to 4 Gbps (and 10 Gbps in the near future). Fibre Channel is especially suited for connecting computer servers to shared storage devices and for interconnecting storage controllers  … 
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E-Guide: Storage Choices for Virtual Machine Disaster Recovery
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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: 04 Sep 2008 | Published: 04 Sep 2008
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Here Comes 8Gig Fibre Channel
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JOURNAL ARTICLE: Switches and host bus adapters are available, but 8Gb/sec arrays won't be released until next year.
Posted: 02 Sep 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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FCoE: Coming to a Data Center Near You: Hot Spots
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JOURNAL ARTICLE: Fibre Channel over Ethernet is speeding along the certification path, and now is the time to determine what it can do for you.
Posted: 02 Sep 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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Top Ten I/O Strategies for the Green and Virtual Data Center
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WHITE PAPER: In this paper Greg Schulz and Jon Toor talks about the industry trends and perspective about the Top Ten I/O Strategies for Green and Virtual data center.
Posted: 01 Sep 2008 | Published: 01 Sep 2008
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Deploying Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 with Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 on Dell™ PowerEdge™ Servers and Dell Storage
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WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an architectural overview and configuration guidelines for deploying Microsoft SQL Server 2005 x64 SP2 with Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 x64 Enterprise or Standard Edition on Dell PowerEdge servers with Dell PowerVault.
Posted: 27 Aug 2008 | Published: 27 Aug 2008
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The Art of Storage
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CASE STUDY: Dell iSCSI solution simplifies storage management for MisterArt.com, supporting 80 percent business growth and nearly two times better performance.
Posted: 27 Aug 2008 | Published: 27 Aug 2008
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Dell Virtualization Reference Architecture
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WHITE PAPER: This overview of Dell Virtualization Reference Architecture (RA) white paper describes three validated configurations for Dell | VMware and Dell | Citrix XenServer Dell™ edition virtual infrastructures.
Posted: 27 Aug 2008 | Published: 27 Aug 2008
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eBook: Reducing Exchange Server complexity with SANs
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WHITE PAPER: Many companies realize the importance of reducing exchange server complexity by leveraging storage platform capabilities. Read this paper to discover the advantages of Storage Area Network (SAN).
Posted: 27 Aug 2008 | Published: 10 Jul 2008
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Reducing Storage Complexity
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WHITE PAPER: This paper explains implementing a comprehensive storage strategy based on simple, cost-effective, and capable plug-and-play technologies which can help reduce costs, increase efficiency, and ensure business continuity.
Posted: 27 Aug 2008 | Published: 27 Aug 2008
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Storage Magazine - August 2008
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WHITE PAPER: Read Storage Magazine's August edition which features the following articles: Enterprise-ready VTLs, Quality Awards IV: It's a tie--EMC and NetApp share enterprise array honors, Storage at your service, Lights, camera, storage!
Posted: 19 Aug 2008 | Published: 19 Aug 2008
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Best Practices Data Deduplication for Symantec's NetBackup (NBU)
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WHITE PAPER: This white paper focuses on how the Data Domain deduplication storage solution integrates with standard NBU architectural and operational environments in order to overcome the growing gap between what is being accomplished and needs to be accomplished.
Posted: 19 Aug 2008 | Published: 19 Aug 2008
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Video: CX4 Series Offers Impressive Flexibility Using New UltraFlex Technology - a Dell/EMC CX4 Series Overview on Flexibility
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VIDEO: Watch this video for a brief overview of the future-ready Dell/EMC CX4 Series arrays, focusing on the innovations, such as UltraFlex modular I/O and virtual provisioning of this highly flexible storage platform.
Posted: 11 Aug 2008 | Premiered: 12 Aug 2008
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Scaling Performance, Capacity, and Functionality Using Dell/EMC CX Series Storage Arrays
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VIDEO: Learn more about how the new Dell/EMC CX4 Series storage arrays can scale capacity, performance and functionality to meet your changing storage needs today and tomorrow.
Posted: 11 Aug 2008 | Premiered: 12 Aug 2008
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Video: Future-Ready Dell/EMC CX4 Series Storage Arrays - Highly Flexible and Massively Scalable - a Dell/EMC CX4 Series Overview
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Posted: 11 Aug 2008 | Premiered: 12 Aug 2008
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The Tech Insider's Guide to I/O Virtualization
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WHITE PAPER: This guide reviews the factors driving virtual I/O adoption, how virtual machine technologies benefit from virtual I/O, and the specific solutions that are available now.
Posted: 11 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2008
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Enterprise Storage Designed for Today's Needs and Tomorrow's Growth Using Dell/EMC CX4 Storage Arrays
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BROCHURE: The Dell/EMC CX4 storage arrays build on the CX reputation of flexibility, ease-of-use, and innovation, and are designed to greatly improve levels of performance and expandability. Learn more about it in this brochure.
Posted: 08 Aug 2008 | Published: 08 Aug 2008
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New UltraFlex Technology Provides Impressive Flexibility for Dell/EMC CX4 Series Storage Arrays
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WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the architecture and functionality of the Dell/EMC CX4 Series Storage Arrays, including new design innovations such as UltraFlex modular I/O technology.
Posted: 08 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2008
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Conquering the Storage Provisioning Balancing Act - Dell/EMC CX4 Virtual Provisioning Overview
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WHITE PAPER: In this white paper learn how Virtual Provisioning and the new Dell/EMC CX4 Series helps organizations to reduce storage costs by increasing capacity utilization, simplifying storage management, and reducing application downtime.
Posted: 08 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2008
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HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA4400) Performance
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WHITE PAPER: In this white paper learn how sequential performance provides customers with improved data transfer rates for applications such as data warehousing, streaming video, high-performance technical computing, and backups and restores.
Posted: 07 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2008
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Implementation Guide: Using a High Performance Network Backbone to Meet the Requirements of the Modern Enterprise Data Center
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WHITE PAPER: This document shares Juniper Networks best practices in designing a highly efficient, secure, scalable and flexible data center network.
Posted: 29 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 May 2008
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Let's Get Virtual: A Look at Today's Server Virtualization Architectures
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WHITE PAPER: Increasing power demands and space limitations in the data center have begun to transition server virtualization technologies from luxuries to necessities. Server virtualization provides a path toward server consolidation that results in significant...
Posted: 18 Jul 2008 | Published: 14 May 2007
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VM Backup Bliss? The State of VM Data Protection in the Enterprise
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WHITE PAPER: This report outlines the state of current server virtualization data protection and recovery approaches, while also keeping an eye on the future. Numerous improvements in virtualization data protection are on the horizon, and with creative use...
Posted: 18 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2007
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Optimizing Your Backup System
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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: 11 Jul 2008 | Published: 11 Jul 2008
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Making IT Invisible: NetApp Storage for Virtual Server Environments
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WHITE PAPER: Server virtualization provides liquidity to IT by delivering improved hardware utilization, physical server consolidation, increased availability and lower data center operating costs.
Posted: 08 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2008
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Connecting the Dots Between Storage and Virtualization
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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: 30 Jun 2008 | Premiered: 27 Jun 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
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FIBRE CHANNEL DEFINITION (continued): …  and drives. Since Fibre Channel is three times as fast, it has begun to replace the Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) as the transmission interface between servers and clustered storage devices. Fibre channel is more flexible; devices can be as far as ten kilometers (about six miles) apart if optical fiber is used as the physical medium. Optical fiber is not required for shorter distances, however, because Fibre Channel also works using coaxial cable … 
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