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RAID White Papers :: Storage Synergies: Adaptec Series 5 Unified Serial Controllers and Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS Drives

A new generation of storage controllers and disk drives is now available, optimal for a growing class of storage applications that require scalability, performance and reliability.  >>  

iSCSI White Papers :: The Convergence of Storage and Networking

The iSCSI protocol specifies a method for encapsulating SCSI commands in the TCP/IP protocol — the messaging protocol of the Internet. This encapsulation means that the Internet, or any...  >>  

Fibre Channel White Papers :: FIBRE CHANNEL WRITE ACCELERATION

The Cisco® MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer Directors and Fabric Switches provide a complete set of intelligent storage services that include Fibre Channel Write Acceleration (FC-WA), which can...  >>  

RAID White Papers :: Emulex HBAs Outperform the Competition in Microsoft Exchange Environments

A properly tuned storage subsystem is key to extracting the highest performance possible from Microsoft Exchange mail servers. The Fibre Channel HBA is a critical link between the Exchange Server...  >>  

SAN White Papers :: Virtual Fabrics - Extending Virtual Fabrics to HBAs

In large enterprise SAN environments, several mission critical applications operate simultaneously, almost always sharing the same physical network infrastructure. Storage administrators require a...  >>  

RAID Application Notes :: Adaptec RAID 51245

The Series 5 family of high-performance Adaptec Unified Serial (SATA/SAS) RAID controllers offers both high I/O transaction and high bandwidth processing.  >>  

iSCSI White Papers :: Intel PRO/1000 Server Adapter iSCSI and iSCSI Remote

All major operating systems (OSs), such as Microsoft Windows* Server 2003, Red Hat Linux*, and Solaris* include iSCSI initiators. Any Intel PRO/1000 adapter or LOM will work with the native OS...  >>  

iSCSI Application Notes :: Selecting an I/O processor for storage applications

Conventional host-attached storage applications use a chipset on the host to interface via a PCI bus to an IDE drive or SCSI controller, with the host CPU running all the driver software to manage...  >>  

iSCSI Application Notes :: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)

With virtually every IT department in today's corporate world facing growing user demands and shrinking budgets, storage vendors are rushing to deliver the cost efficiency of low-end systems with...  >>  

SAN Application Notes :: Director-Class SAN Switch

Devices Used: FPGA, LatticeSC, FPSC and Power Manager.  >>