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Presentation Transcript: Improving Network Performance in a Virtual Environment
In this presentation transcript, learn why performance is extremely important in a virtual server environment. For starters, the better your server performance, the more you can increase the virtual machine density on your host servers. Learn why increasing virtual machine density is one of the best way to decrease your hardware costs.
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Deployment Strategies for 802.11n: Key Considerations for the Next Generation of Wireless Networking
While 802.11n wireless networks let enterprises create a seamless working environment by combining the mobility of wireless with the performance of wired networks, the best ways for deploying 802.11n—while minimizing acquisition and operational costs—may still be unclear. Read this white paper to learn more.
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E-Book: Networking the Modern Data Center
Virtualization, the convergence of data and storage networks, and the evolution of how and where people work are all changing the way the data center should be designed. This e-book examines the issues and offers strategies for developing a data center network that will stand the test of time and emerging technology.
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Brocade FCoE Solutions for I/O Convergence
Fibre Channel over Ethernet is extending the reliability benefits and service of Fibre Channels to LANs and other Ethernet networks. Learn how this approach enables flexible, scalable, and simplified data center fabrics that support increasingly powerful applications and growing amounts of data.
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Best Practices for Virtual Infrastructure Management
While virtualization offers many significant technical and business benefits, it comes with some formidable IT management challenges. Discover the three best practices that IT leaders are following to ensure they get the most value from this dynamic, flexible, and application-centric technology.
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Data Center Evolution Without Revolution
While many companies understand the benefits of virtualization and cloud computing, they struggle to prepare their data center for such a transition. Discover how to avoid a “rip-and-replace” approach by utilizing a phased network architecture upgrade that helps control risk and costs.
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Life-Critical Networks For 21st Century Health Care
Network convergence has turned hospitals into dense networks of sophisticated, computerized medical gear. Take the network away and you’d be left with a lot of dumb devices that cannot perform the lifesaving functions for which they were designed.
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Voice and Unified Communication-Enabled Networks: Three Critical Considerations
The multi-service, mission-critical, business-enabling campus LAN needs consistent features and service reliability from edge to core. Talk to Brocade and find out how to deploy an extraordinary network for the entire enterprise-converged campus to consolidated data center.
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Brocade Carrier Ethernet Switch/Router Competitive Positioning
In this whitepaper, we analyze Brocade’s carrier Ethernet offering and ability to address and solve the challenges posed by CSP migration strategies and network infrastructure requirements.
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Best Practices for Virtual Infrastructure Management
By understanding the unique management challenges of virtualized environments and leveraging innovative solutions to meet those challenges, you will be able to help your organization reap the wide range of business benefits that virtualization can deliver.
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What is Carrier Grade Ethernet?
This paper explains the fundamentals of Carrier Ethernet and examines how service profiles and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) can be defined in Carrier Ethernet.
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Technical Brief: Next-Generation Wireless Backhaul Solutions
Many services, such as mobile Internet and mobile TV, require high bandwidth, and current backhaul infrastructures are not optimized to handle this traffic. Advanced routers and switches from Brocade enable highly scalable designs for the eventual convergence of voice and data infrastructure that can deliver new multimedia services.
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Achieving Pervasive Mobility through Integrated Campus Networking
Brocade® Mobility enterprise Wireless LAN (WLAN) solutions, featuring support for 802.11n-based wireless networking, can help organizations efficiently meet these requirements while increasing their business agility and building value-driven edge networks.
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Best Practices Guide: Cabling the Data Center
This guide describes best practices for incorporating cabling in a typical data center, plus tips for selecting cabling components and information on data transmission media.
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Data Center Simplifying Virtualization through Adaptive Networking Technology
The Brocade® Data Center Fabric (DCF) architecture provides a flexible framework for designing, building, and transforming enterprise data centers into strategic assets.
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New E-Guide: Securing and Consolidating Remote and Branch Offices
The remote office/branch office (ROBO) is now a main part of many organizations' storage initiatives. This eGuide, featuring articles from Storage magazine, outlines the issues of protecting ROBO data and provides insight and strategies for...
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SAN Director Power Calculators
Which director draws less power, the Brocade 48000 or the Cisco MDS 9513? Calculate environmental characteristics (AC power draw, heat generated), as well as port and bandwidth performance for the directors based on the number of blades present
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ESG Lab Validation Report on Brocade Virtual Fabrics and Director Power Efficiency
Hands-on lab testing of Fibre Channel directors including measurements by an independent electrician. Learn how power savings can leave more watts and amps available per rack and per floor tile for bladed servers and storage.
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Brocade StorageX Demo
Brocade experts demonstrate some key functionality and benefits of StorageX.
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Achieving Enterprise SAN Performance with the Brocade 48000 Director
This paper describes how IT organizations can leverage the benefits of this SAN director to maximize performance, flexibility, and data availability in mission-critical environments.
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Brocade 5000 Sell Sheet
The Brocade 5000 is the industry's highest-performing midrange switch and the first common platform to provide non-disruptive and seamless expansion of existing SAN fabrics.
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Alliance Partner Network
The Alliance Partner Network (APN) was created to help you overcome challenges like reducing costs, satisfying business compliance requirements and more. Join APN to receive comprehensive training and services that assist you with Brocade solutions.