Data center storage is important to enterprise organizations. Find the latest news and resources about effective data center management in this topic section.
Fibre Channel over Ethernet timing may cause problems
SearchStorage.com | 12 Aug 2008 ARTICLE - Converging Fibre Channel and Ethernet into one network makes sense in theory, but Dell'Oro Group report points out the devil's in the details.
Brocade acquires Ethernet equipment maker Foundry Networks for $3 billion
SearchStorage.com | 22 Jul 2008 ARTICLE - The acquisition of Foundry matches Brocade's product lines to Cisco's, but observers are concerned about the $3 billion price tag, which dwarfs the $713 million buyout of McData.
Bullish Cisco predicts Fibre Channel over Ethernet storage arrays in 2009
SearchStorage.com | 07 Jul 2008 ARTICLE - Despite Brocade's claims that FCoE is still years away from reality, Cisco says it has customers close to adoption on the server side with FCoE storage arrays coming next year.
Server virtualization may have big disaster recovery payoff
Submitted By: Howard Marks | 20 Feb 2008 TIP - The biggest impact of server virtualization may be in disaster recovery, specifically in improving the recovery time of applications that you wouldn't dedicate a standby server to.
How to make your storage greener
Submitted By: Rick Cook | 06 Feb 2008 TIP - Rick Cook explains how to evaluate your storage energy demands and reduce the cost of power consumption.
How to increase your storage energy efficiency
Submitted By: Greg Schulz | 17 Jul 2007 TIP - You can improve storage energy efficiency by spinning down and powering off disk drives not in use, putting drives into a slower mode and using RAID levels and tiered storage.
Green storage quiz
SearchStorage.com Editors | 10 Apr 2008 QUIZ - "Green" storage is steadily gaining momentum in the industry. But how much do you really know about this important topic? Take our quick quiz today and find out!
Green Storage
07 Dec 2007 SPECIAL REPORTS - Storage consumes more and more power in the data center. This Special Report looks at green storage issues and features a podcast with storage analyst Nik Simpson.
carrier hotel
11 Nov 2006 WORD - A carrier hotel, also called a colocation center, is a secure physical site or building where data communications media converge and are interconnected. It is common for numerous service providers to share the facilities of a ...
storage consolidation
05 Oct 2004 WORD - Storage consolidation, also called storage convergence is a method of centralizing data storage among multiple servers. The objective is to facilitate data backup and archiving for all subscribers in an enterprise, while ...
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Get your iSCSI game on: Best Practices
Storage Magazine | 11 Aug 2008 COLUMNS - iSCSI is a mature protocol for accessing storage and a solid alternative to Fibre Channel. Technologies such as blade servers and server virtualization benefit from iSCSI as it lets you minimize the number of connections ...
Lights, camera, storage!
Storage Magazine | 11 Aug 2008 FEATURES - The digital media business and corporate multimedia departments are looking at increasing terabytes and even petabytes of information generated in the creation, editing, archiving and distribution of digital content. In ...
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