There is no shortage of options in the scale-out NAS marketplace. Therefore, when considering scale-out NAS, it is critical to define what you are looking for. Gridstore, Sanbolic and Nexenta are pushing the envelope on scale-out NAS to deliver unique solutions.
As part of Brocade's mission to offer the best and fastest storage networking environments, it now offers a wide range of 16 Gbps Fibre Channel products without overlooking Ethernet.
What Infortrend lacks in name recognition it makes up for in product selection. Its ESVA and EonStor product families aim to meet the SAN and NAS needs of the midrange and SMB markets.
These days, Cisco is about more than just networking. Its Unified Fabric strategy makes it possible to mix and match from the MDS and Nexus product families, harnessing the same command lines and GUI operations to perform SAN functions.
Fibre Channel over Ethernet isn't just about physical wires and ports.
Firm's portfolio of WAN emulators helps businesses accurately model effects of bandwidth, latency and packet loss.
Multiple levels of security are the one surefire way to prevent a hacker from accessing and damaging your systems. Making SELinux the base for all systems will go a long way toward achieving this.
On the surface, Fibre Channel over Ethernet seems a slam dunk. Reality, however, says otherwise. What will it take for the less-expensive and easy-to-use technology to win over CTOs?
Dataram this week began shipping high availability (HA) versions of its XcelaSAN accelerators for Fibre Channel SANs.
The company claims the first scale-out virtual NAS appliances for VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Converged network adapters support 10GbE, iSCSI, FCoE.
Intel is ramping up its effort to expand Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE).
About half of the respondents said that SAN storage and server refreshes are a top priority this year.
Alacritech's SSD-based ANX 1500 appliances accelerate NFS in NAS environments without requiring modifications to existing NAS systems.
The $218 million acquisition will merge complementary 10 Gigabit Ethernet and InfiniBand product sets.
Silver Peak’s software-only WAN optimization appliance runs as a virtual machine on VMware ESX.
Data Center Manager maintains application services as virtual machines move around the data center fabric.
16GFC is designed for high bandwidth applications and devices, including ISLs, data migration, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), and SSD drives or memory arrays.
The new VDX 6720 Data Center Switches are the first to run Brocade’s Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS) technology and provide a foundation for converged SAN and LAN traffic.
The networking giant’s first quarter fiscal 2011 results and outlook have CEO John Chambers “disappointed.”
Broadcom is rolling out silicon technology built for 100GbE networks and beyond.
Emulex OneCommand Guardian can encrypt data at the server using Fibre Channel or Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) host bus adapters (HBAs) from any vendor.
Brocade has designed an embedded switch and converged network adapter that bring unified SAN and LAN connectivity to IBM’s BladeCenter servers.
The new HP ExpertONE program offers certifications and training for converged infrastructures and a “fast track” incentive for Cisco Certified networking pros.
The Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) standard has been ratified as IEEE 802.3az, and along with it has already come vendor support from silicon vendor Broadcom.
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