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

Why an Education Series on “Why I/O Is Strategic?”

Emulex teamed with leading industry analysts, including Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), IDC, Evaluator Group and 451 Research, to demonstrate the strategic importance of I/O in the data center for four key trends: virtualization, cloud computing, big data and convergence in its educational series ‘Why I/O Is Strategic?’, an anthology of briefs by industry analysts, aiming to help IT professionals recognize the strategic importance of I/O and make informed decisions.

In this series, we pose key questions to our ’virtual’ panel of industry experts, asking them to comment on some of the biggest IT projects and trends that are in process today, and why I/O is strategic, appropriate I/O strategies for the next five years and why I/O is one of the foundations of your data center’s infrastructure. Read More