Discover how your company can optimize its investments in virtualization and cloud technologies. This whitepaper reveals how fabric-based network architecture is the cornerstone for creating a more efficient, cost-effective way to move data through the network.
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Is your current data center LAN design getting in the way of greater business agility and cost savings? This whitepaper explains how your organization can realize the benefits of virtualization and cloud computing by evolving your data center.
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Virtualization is rapidly evolving into a core element of
next-generation data centers. This expanded role places new
strains on the network. This report explore the technical issues exposed by virtualized infrastructure and looks at standards, technologies and best practices that can make your network ready to support virtualization.
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A fully automated and synchronized IT operation to enable a self-service user environment is the private cloud's promise. Learn how the right data center network infrastructure makes it possible.
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The ringing in of a new year is as good a time as any to draft a checklist that’ll put your networking infrastructure on the right track. After all, cloud computing, amped-up virtualization, data center consolidation, green IT, increased loads of data and lots more initiatives will be putting pressures on your existing network in [...]Continue Reading »
I’m sure you’ve heard it: cloud computing will cure everything that ails us. Okay, okay, that is a bit over the top. But seriously, cloud computing gets a lot of good press, and as a new business technology model, I think cloud computing is several steps in the right direction. But it can’t be the [...]Continue Reading »
Think cloud computing’s big now? Just you wait. IDC has its 2011 predictions out, and among them is the finding that cloud adoption is mainstreaming, both public and private, with IDC senior VP and chief analyst Frank Gens commenting on a recent webcast that the higher growth rate for the next four years will be [...]Continue Reading »
Data Center Community Perspectives
At no time has information technology (IT) modernization and its role in protecting our nation been more important than it is today. The defense IT community has a full plate—from mandated efforts to consolidate data centers by migrating to theContinue Reading »
Anthony Robbins, VP federal sales, shares how the US Federal government can modernize what is the most complex infrastructure on the planet. Continue Reading »
Just as DNA represents the magical building blocks of life, fabrics have become the magical foundation for enterprise data centers, both for today and into the future. Gartner, as published in their recent Magic Quadrant for Data Center NetworkContinue Reading »
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White Paper
Ethernet fabrics reduce complexity and costs in a virtual data center, while providing the ultimate in scalability, performance, and application mobility. Download this whitepaper to gain tips on simplifying the virtual data center.Read the white paperGuidebook
Addressing management challenges will keep the network from becoming the bottleneck in virtualized environments. Understand the unique management challenges of virtualized environments and leverage innovative solutions to meet those challenges.Read the guidebookAnalytics Report
We provide guidelines for evaluating SaaS and the public cloud, including total cost of ownership, to help you choose the best cloud services for your organization.Read the report -
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Leveraging cloud infrastructures lets CIOs step back from systems maintenance drudgery and step up IT's profile. This whitepaper gives the strategy to enable new business opportunities with innovative cloud technologies.Read the white paperTech Brief
This whitepaper uncovers a product strategy that delivers features to address the unintended consequences of server virtualization. It focuses on issues in the server and virtual server I/O, addressing the operational challenges for server, application, and network administrators.Read the briefWhite Paper
Discover how enterprises can realize greater scalability, seamless mobility, and reduced management complexity in increasingly virtual and cloud-oriented IT infrastructures when robust FCoE-based converged networking solutions play a role in network evolution.Read the white paperTech Brief
Improve network utilization, maximize application availability, and simplify virtualized data centers network architecture with Virtual Server Cluster Switching technology. Find out how.Read the brief -
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Organizations can control risk and reduce costs by choosing a cost-effective, phased network architecture upgrade that enables new levels of application flexibility and business agility. Get the strategy in this whitepaper.Read the white paper
News from the Network
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Hybrid Clouds in Focus
InformationWeek, October 15, 2010
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Virtualization, Cloud Top Tech Strategies Agenda
InformationWeek, October 15, 2010
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The IT Pro Ranking: Networking Vendors
InformationWeek, October 2, 2010
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Crunching the Virtualization Numbers
Network Computing, September 16, 2010
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Brocade Announces Unified Management Software
Network Computing, September 15, 2010
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Fed Data Center Efforts Move to Execution Phase
InformationWeek, September 15, 2010
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Department of Justice Bureau Builds Private Cloud
InformationWeek, September 10, 2010
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Brocade's New Data Center: Less Space, Efficient Design
Network Computing, August 19, 2010
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