The fine art of Fibre Channel troubleshooting

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	The fine art of Fibre Channel troubleshooting Troubleshooting Fibre Channel networks can be as much an art as it is a science, but there are some basic best practices you can follow to reduce the guessing and speed resolution. Here are 10 tips to help you get to the bottom of pesky problems. Read More WHITE PAPER: VMware & NetApp Drive IT Efficiency with a Private Cloud Read this success story and find out how NetApp and VMware provided Magna International with a cost-efficient solution. Read Now! In this Issue My Thoughts on IBM, NEC, and OpenFlow LTE-Advanced is the future, but no rocket ship Juniper's financial challenges continue New leaders emerging in WAN optimization market WHITE PAPER: Shoretel The Changing Role of Mobile Communications in the Workplace Mobile VoIP can help by leveraging Wi-Fi networks. Choosing an experienced technology vendor to deliver mVoIP capabilities can dramatically reduce costs while improving productivity. Read now! My Thoughts on IBM, NEC, and OpenFlow IBM and NEC announced this week that the two companies will work together to offer networking solutions based upon SDN and OpenFlow. Read More WHITE PAPER: Shoretel Reduce Cellular Spend With ShoreTel Mobility Organizations continue to spend valuable budget on international and long distance calls. This white paper shows how a multi-location organization can reduce cellular spend by leveraging current Wi-Fi and dual-mode smartphone deployments, and offloading expensive minutes from cellular networks to virtually free WLAN networks. Read now! LTE-Advanced is the future, but no rocket ship The 4G network standards approved last week by the ITU may improve the mobile data experience soon, even if consumers don't actually see the 100M bps mobile speed for which they were designed. Read More WHITE PAPER: Juniper Security Considerations for the Cloud-Ready Data Center A network-centric approach to providing security in the data center delivers benefits such as scalability, unified security policy definition and enforcement, visibility into application traffic, and reduced operations overhead. Learn how to effectively manage the risks. View Now Juniper's financial challenges continue Juniper Networks' challenges are due to timing with new product rollouts and shifts in investments from customers and channel partners. Read More New leaders emerging in WAN optimization market In yet another sign that growing revenues are reshaping the vendor outlook in the network management sector, Gartner recently named vendor Silver Peak one of the leaders in its magic quadrant for the WAN optimization market. Read More
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