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The Virtual Machine Aware SAN by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Cisco MDS 9000 Family to support an end-to-end virtualized SAN environment that is flexible, secure, scalable, and mobile. Despite the efficiency improvements virtualization brings to the data center, the proliferation of virtual machines also introduces new challenges for the SAN, including problems related to loss of visibility, security, traffic isolation for applications, quality of service (QoS), performance monitoring, and management complexity. This white paper reviews...
Denver Health by VMware, Inc.
implemented VMware technology with LeftHand Networks SAN technology to create a simple but powerful disaster recovery solution. Denver Health, Colorado’s primary “safety net” institution, provides residents with access to the highest quality health care, regardless of ability to pay. Twenty-five percent of all Denver residents, or 160,000 individuals, receive their health care at Denver Health. As a healthcare organization, Denver Health had very stringent criteria to meet...
IT Briefing: Efficient SAN-Based Tape Encryption by Cisco Systems, Inc.
resides on backup tapes. The benefits of encrypting in the SAN include centralization and heterogeneity. Most organizations have a variety of existing tape drives, even drives that are considered obsolete, because tape drives have long lifespans. A heterogeneous solution that can perform encryption across all existing drives is very compelling. SME is simple and nondisruptive, not requiring reconfiguration of hardware or rewiring of the SAN. In addition, the encryption...
ESG LAB VALIDATION REPORT Exanet ExaStore Clustered NAS Performance by Exanet
how scale-out ExaStore clustered NAS systems deliver SAN levels of performance with the ease of management and the lower cost of NAS. Typically, customers have implemented storage area networks (SAN) to meet the performance and high availability requirements of their mission critical applications. Recent technology advances with Network Attached Storage (NAS), however, give customers another alternative to expensive and complex SAN deployments. This report explores how...
MDS 9000 SAN-OS Software: The Virtual Machine Aware SAN by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Cisco MDS 9000 Family to support an end-to-end virtualized SAN environment that is flexible, secure, scalable, and mobile. The expectations for today’s virtualized data centers are high—demands include greater business responsiveness, space consolidation, power conservation, higher security, and increased bandwith. This software demo details the Cisco MDS 9000 Family 8-Gbps Fibre Channel Modules, which deliver consistent, predictable high performance to support the most...
Fibre Channel Director Face-off: Brocade vs. Cisco by Storage Magazine
offers the best director for your storage environment? SAN consolidations, blade servers, virtual servers and storage, data encryption and requirements for more secure fabric services are prompting enterprises to bring more application services into their SAN fabric. Fibre Channel (FC) switch vendors Brocade Communications Systems Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. are adding new features to their FC directors' core operating systems or on specialized FC director blades that...
Building a Highly Reliable SAN by Dell | EqualLogic
is a vital component in Storage Area Network (SAN) design that keeps your production environment operating and avoids data loss and downtime. System reliability is a vital component in Storage Area Network (SAN) design that keeps your production environment operating and avoids data loss and downtime. But since SANs are built using both mechanical and electronic parts, component failures due to usage, environmental factors, or manufacturing defects are not...
More Functionality, Less Infrastructure: Managed IT with Netboot/i by Double-Take Software
state from compute devices, allows them to run from iSCSI SAN, and provides many benefits to an organization. Storage has been evolving throughout the history of computer systems. Storing both operating system state and data within the computer caused management challenges such as storage over provisioning, data duplication as well as expensive and ineffective backup solutions. Shifting data storage to Storage Area Networks (SAN) provided numerous advantages in both hard...
Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i by Dell, Inc.
The PowerVault MD3000i is an iSCSI SAN that helps simplify data management and delivers enterprise data protection capabilities at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage consolidation solutions. Now small and medium-sized organizations can harness the storage consolidation and data management capabilities of a SAN, easily and cost effectively. The PowerVault MD3000i is an iSCSI SAN that helps simplify data management and delivers...
eGuide: iSCSI SAN Storage for Microsoft Exchange by Dell, Inc.
This E-Guide will introduce the concepts of an iSCSI-based SAN storage system and will discuss how to implement for Microsoft Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2007 using Windows Server 2003 and the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator software. Selecting the proper storage solution in an Exchange Server environment requires careful consideration. Because they are more cost-efficient and scalable, iSCSI SANs are gaining popularity as the storage method of choice for many companies. This E...
The Benefits of Running VMware VI3 on Cisco MDS Optimized SAN by Cisco Systems, Inc.
innovative approach to support an end-to-end virtualized SAN environment that is flexible, scalable, and mobile. Read this Cisco MDS and VMware Joint whitepaper that describes the innovative approach to support an end-to-end virtualized SAN environment that is flexible, scalable, and mobile...
Storage Networking Case Study: How Cisco IT Uses a SAN to Automate the Legal Discovery Process by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Cisco IT’s internal deployment of a storage area network (SAN) within the Cisco network, a leading-edge enterprise environment that is one of the largest and most complex in the world. This case study describes Cisco IT’s internal deployment of a storage area network (SAN) within the Cisco network, a leading-edge enterprise environment that is one of the largest and most complex in the world. Cisco customers can draw on Cisco IT’s real-word experience in this area to help support similar...
The Cisco MDS 9000 8-GB SAN Solutions – An Overview by Cisco Systems, Inc.
The Cisco MDS 9000 8-GB SAN Solutions reinforces the cisco commitment to full and seamless product interoperability and consistency, as it protects the investment, lower your TCO and reinforces the vision and value. The Cisco MDS 9000 8-GB SAN Solutions reinforces the cisco commitment to full and seamless product interoperability and consistency, as it protects the investment, lower your TCO and reinforces the vision and value...
Evaluating NAS Performance by Exanet
explores how scale-out clustered NAS systems deliver SAN levels of performance with the ease of management and the lower cost of NAS. Typically, customers have implemented SAN technologies to meet the performance and high availability requirements of their mission critical applications. Recent technology advances with NAS, however, give customers another alternative to expensive and complex SAN deployments. View this Webcast to learn about: --The background of...
Enabling NAS Clusters: The Silicon Storage Appliance by DataDirect Networks
enables large scale shared data clusters via an integrated SAN and... Your organization's data availability is critical.

Performance challenges follow data availability, especially when it comes to large amounts of data. On some levels, servers are not working to full capacity and on other levels they are over utilized. Discover how to provide a more effective utilization of hardware and software resources, simpler scalability and increased availability and performance for your...
Windows Enterprise Data Protection with Backup Exec - Best Practices for Implementing a Centralized SAN-Based Infrastructure by Symantec Corporation
license inventory and discovery, easy-to-configure SAN support, or efficient disk-to-disk-to-tape data protection, Symantec Backup Exec 12 provides market-leading Windows data protection and recovery to support your growing enterprise...
VMworld 2008 - Managing the Virtualized Data Center by Akorri
scales, more VMs and servers and a growing impact on the SAN. Watch this Q&A session with Akorri CEO Tom Joyce to gain expert insight on these challenges. This Q&A videocast reviews the highlights of VMworld 2008. Akorri CEO Tom Joyce notes how this years' attendees have changed their approach to virtualization due to increasing scales, more VMs and servers, and a growing impact on the SAN. As the virtualized environments continue to grow, they are becoming too large for IT...
Cineca Case Study - HPC, Blades, MDS by Cisco Systems, Inc.
more about how Cineca uses Cisco HPC, blade switching, and SAN technologies to reduce increase ROI and reduce maintenance costs and demand on resources. Do you know how to leverage high performance computing (HPC) services to support increasingly complex, data intensive, and business critical projects and applications? This white paper shows you how to do so by combing HPC and SAN technologies with blade switching. You can explore a real-life example of a technique that enabled...
Is iSCSI Good Enough? by Storage Magazine
IP SAN adoption is growing among users who want storage that's easy to install, configure and manage, and also comes at a price considerably less than that of Fibre Channel (FC) SANs. iSCSI can be implemented with gateway technology in which an iSCSI controller attaches to a block-level storage array, thus enabling iSCSI transport. Examples of gateway-enabled iSCSI products are available from Reldata Inc. and StoneFly Inc. In...
IT Briefing: Virtualized Infrastructure Management with LSI StoreAge SVM by LSI Corporation
to manage large SANs for overall better utilization of SAN assets. This paper highlights a new solution with improved and secure tools to manage large SANs for overall better utilization of SAN assets. Discover how this solution addresses the major complexities and challenges associated with managing virtualized environments...
The Best Modular Systems for Network and Storage Availability by Dell, Inc. and Intel
Channel controllers seamlessly, without affecting the LAN/SAN • No reconfiguration of deployment frameworks, DHCP servers, MAC based licensing schemes, or SAN Zoning • Completely independent of the IO Mezzanine cards on the blade and IO modules in the enclosure • Centrally managed, enabled, and configured at the chassis level via web and CLI interfaces
Confront Escalating Data Storage and Power Requirement with HP's Enterprise Virtual Array by Mobius Partners
they used HP’s Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) 6000 Series for SAN and C-Class Chassis. The University of Houston was facing unprecedented demands for power from its High Performance Computing Lab and to overcome this problem they used HP’s Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) 6000 Series for SAN and C-Class Chassis, due to which the university has been able to create 28 new virtual machines without buying any new equipment. Not only has UH centralized computing been able to stay within its...
Building for the Future by Dell, Inc.
MD3000i Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) to support a virtualized server environment that uses two Dell PowerEdge™ 2950 servers running VMware® virtualization software. As the outsourced IT services provider for a fast-growing real estate development and property management firm, iCorps needed to refresh outdated server and storage hardware to expand storage capacity, simplify IT management, and reduce costs. ICorps installed a Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i...
Learn how Cisco MDS enables an efficient and a cost effective Storage Area Network-based solution by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Watch this webcast for expert tips on securing your SAN environment and meeting government regulations. Learn about a technique that transparently encrypts data inside the storage environment without slowing or disrupting business critical applications. Watch this webcast to hear leading industry analyst Curtis Preston and Cisco expert Doug Anderson offer tips to efficiently secure your SAN environment and meet government regulations. You'll learn about a...
HP StorageWorks MSA2000 Family by Hewlett-Packard Company
environments, small clusters, and entry-level and mid-range SAN environments. The new HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Arrays offer the best price-performance features for direct attach environments, small clusters, and entry-level and mid-range SAN environments...
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