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Qlogic Fabric Freedom Equals More Convergence
Qlogic's new Fabric Freedom product line provides a more storage-centric and incremental path to converged networking by supplying ports that can switch between
16-Gbps Fibre Channel and 10-Gbps Ethernet, with or without Fibre Channel over Ethernet, as your data center evolves.
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Fibre Channel in the Near- and Long-Term
The death of Fibre Channel has been a perennial prediction in networking circles ever since the first bit of storage data traversed the Ethernet.
So I did a bit of an eye-roll when I saw yet another headline predicting the protocol's imminent demise at the hands of 10 GbE. But as I waded into the report
from eetime's Rick Merritt, I started to think that maybe there is something to it this time.
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Innovation Through End-to-End Unified Networking Solutions
Businesses are struggling to increase revenue and retain customer loyalty due to constant competitive pressure to innovate quickly and deliver greater value
to customers. Businesses look to technology to help spur growth, cut costs, and stay ahead of the competition. Read this solution brief to learn more about
innovative networking solutions.
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FCoE I/O Convergence and Virtualization
Server virtualization continues to offer data center TCO benefits while improving agility in terms of application and
storage availability. Implementing FCoE with virtualization is one way to extract value from the virtualization framework,
and can improve data center cost efficiency through I/O convergence.
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Storage protocols battle it out for the data centre switching crown
There used to be only one SAN protocol: Fibre Channel. Now there are several, with iSCSI, Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) vying to be king of the storage protocols
in the data centre.
In this article we will look at the products available from the three market leaders in storage switching—Cisco, Brocade and QLogic—and assess their storage protocols strategies
at this major fork in the road.
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Guidelines for FCoE Deployment
This article provides a summary of FCoE and addresses questions about the technology. It concludes with information on how enterprises can make
the move to FCoE using a gradual, phased approach.
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IBM BladeCenter at-a-Glance Guide
QLogic 2-port 10Gb Converged Network Adapter (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter
The QLogic 2-port 10Gb Converged Network Adapter (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter offers robust 8Gb Fibre Channel storage connectivity and 10Gb networking
over a single Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) link
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FCIA Makes the Case for FCoE
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is a new protocol that expands Fibre Channel into the Ethernet environment.
FCoE combines, and leverages the advantages of, two technologies: the Fibre Channel protocol and Ethernet.
The terms unified fabric or I/O consolidation are synonymous and refer to the ability of a network
(in this case, Ethernet) to use the same switches and host adapters to carry different types of traffic
that have very different traffic characteristics and handling requirements.This equates to being able to
install and operate a single network instead of two or three.
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Hands-on First Look at FCoE Technology
QLogic, Cisco and NetApp commissioned Demartek to perform a hands-on evaluation of
new Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) technology. This evaluation included installing and deploying
applications using FCoE technology in the QLogic lab facilities and reviewing several features including
system installation configuration, provisioning storage to hosts and deploying storage to Microsoft
Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Server. This report shows the actual steps taken to install and use
the FCoE technology storage system.
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FCoE Total Cost of Ownership Calculator
This useful tool developed by Cisco provides the ability to calculate the
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for a Unified Fabric implementation where LAN and SAN are combined
over 10GbE and compared to a discrete implementation of separate LAN and SAN technologies. The
objective is to economically quantify the comparative value of these approaches for building
data center networks.
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