2010 solid state drive forces and trends; Storage/data convergence: Cisco stands alone

	Storage/data convergence: Cisco stands alone | Arista, Blade win top spot in data center switch test
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	2010 solid state drive forces and trends Happy New Year is more than a greeting in the solid state drive business. Many products that have been in the 'promised' stage are going to hatch during the next quarter or two. Read More WHITE PAPER: Storwize Storwize/IBM Technical Validation Report Storwize appliances, deployed on IBM hardware, compress data in real-time as it is passed to the storage system. Storwize has placed special emphasis on the performance of the storage system with the STN product line to ensure that Storwize compression does not impact performance. This technical report describes the tests performed by IBM and Storwize personnel, and the results of each verification test. Learn more In this Issue Storage/data convergence: Cisco stands alone Arista, Blade win top spot in data center switch test Management and usability: Extreme goes its own way Latency and jitter: Cut-through design pays off for Arista, Blade Link aggregation: Arista, Blade and Cisco fare best Multicast group capacity: Extreme comes out on top WEBCAST: HP Need to Backup 10TB+ per Night? Data deduplication based on grid technology has significant advantages over alternate methods. This video explains how enterprises can; backup 17TB per hour from a single VTL, eliminate human error through advanced automation, increase capacity as needed; save floor space with a smaller footprint, and lower energy costs, Learn more. Storage/data convergence: Cisco stands alone Data center switches offer the promise of combining previously separate data and storage networks, thus reducing capital expense costs. However, the switches tested take different approaches to convergence. Read More Arista, Blade win top spot in data center switch test As data center managers consolidate and virtualize their servers, the next order of business becomes moving all that traffic. Enter top-of-rack data center switches that offer speed, scalability, redundancy, virtualization support and other features not available in garden-variety Ethernet switches. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Better Web App Delivery The increased dependency on Web applications has created greater complexity in the environment making availability, performance and security of Web applications an imperative. This white paper discusses how any size organization can tune its Web application delivery services with a virtualized solution that will meet the unique characteristics of each individual application. Read More Management and usability: Extreme goes its own way For most switches tested, the main question when it comes to usability is "Can you speak IOS?" Every switch tested except Extreme's has a command-line interface (CLI) that resembles Cisco's. That's a smart design choice considering more network engineers are conversant in IOS than any other environment. Read More Latency and jitter: Cut-through design pays off for Arista, Blade In many data centers, latency and jitter are the most important metrics. Even the small amounts of delay (latency) or delay variation (jitter) introduced by a switch can have a profound impact on application performance. Read More WEBCAST: HP Metzler: Virtualization and the Network Manager The networks manager's role has changed significantly over the years. This Webcast highlights survey results of 460 IT pros and their experiences with network management. Learn how network automation is helping to address the unique challenges of both physical and virtual environments. Learn more Link aggregation: Arista, Blade and Cisco fare best Although link aggregation combines ports, it's not necessarily the case that throughput will scale linearly with port count. Fairness, or the uniformity of flow distribution across members of a link aggregation group (LAG), is always a concern. Read More Multicast group capacity: Extreme comes out on top As data center managers consolidate and virtualize their servers, the next order of business becomes moving all that traffic. Enter top-of-rack data center switches that offer speed, scalability, redundancy, virtualization support and other features not available in garden-variety Ethernet switches. Read More
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