Convergenomics:
The Guide to Network Convergence Solutions

Convergenomics - The Guide to Network Convergence Solutions" is a comprehensive introduction to help today's data center simplify networking, reduce costs and increase business agility with network convergence. The book offers IT managers a resource to help them craft their next-generation network strategy and explains how to converge protocols, such as Fibre Channel and iSCSI, onto a 10Gb/s Enhanced Ethernet backbone. It includes use cases and applications, an overview of the technology evolution and standards activities, and a review of the building blocks for deploying a converged network solution, including software, storage, switches, host connectivity and management tools. Read More

Management Mind Meld

Converged networked environment will present management challenges for IT administrators. To better understand these challenges, the Management Mind Meld book presents IT administrators with two perspectives:

1. What network administrators need to know about storage management
2. What storage administrators need to know about network management

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Ixia Black Book on Network Convergence

The "Black Book for Converged Network Adapters" is a primer on the technology and testing of Converged Network Adapters (CNAs), published by Ixia and Emulex. It includes detailed test plans required to thoroughly measure the performance of a CNA. Step-by-step instructions are included to measure Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) throughput, User Diagram Protocol (UDP) throughput, latency, and storage input/output (I/O) performance in virtualized and non-virtualized environments. Read More