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IBM System Storage DS4800 8000 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution

whitepaper The tested solution consists of one IBM System Storage DS4800 dual controller attached to 3 fibre channel EXP810 storage expansion arrays, for a total of 48 disks. The DS4800 maximum configuration offers up to 67 TB of fibre channel (112 TB SATA...

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

IBM BladeCenter Deployment Guide Part 1a - Advanced Management Module

whitepaper The blade servers utilize the IBM BladeCenter Fibre Channel Expansion Card connected to the BladeCenter Fibre Channel Switch Modules via the BladeCenter backplane. The paper is intended to present the general steps necessary to successfully deploy...

Tags: blades

[11 May 2008]

Sun and Brocade: The Green Combination for Your Datacenter

whitepaper This paper reviews the energy consumption of tape libraries and Director-class Fibre Channel switches that make up an enterprise Tape SAN. The combination of the Sun StorageTek SL8500 Tape Library and the Brocade 48000 Director can reduce the...

Tags: storage management

[11 May 2008]

SVC Volume Migration

whitepaper SVC implements an indirection, or "virtualization", layer in a Fibre Channel storage area network (FC SAN). The IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) is a block storage virtualization appliance. The purpose of this paper is to provide detailed, step-by...

Tags: storage management

[11 May 2008]

Managing IBM TotalStorage DS300 / DS400 With IBM Director

whitepaper IBM Director Version 5.10 added support for managing the IBM TotalStorage DS300 (iSCSI) and DS400 (Fibre) storage subsystems as SMI-S (Storage Management Initiative Specification) storage devices. SMI-S is a standard developed by the Storage...

Tags: storage management

[11 May 2008]

Virgin Media to ramp up capacity on core network

News As web users' thirst for bandwidth soars, cable broadband purveyor Virgin Media is looking to squeeze four times the capacity out of its optical network - but without the expense of ripping out and upgrading its fibre.

Tags: fibre, nortel, bandwidth, broadband

[09 May 2008]

Carphone Warehouse plans broadband boost

News He added: "In the longer term what's going to happen is that at some point the UK ISPs will decide to invest in fibre in the UK. Mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse is to sell 50 per cent of its retail business to US retail giant Best Buy for...

Tags: talktalk, broadband, carphone warehouse

[09 May 2008]

Bournemouth to be UK's first Fibrecity

News H2O Networks, a company that lays fibre optic cabling in the sewers, said work will begin to hook up every house and business in Bournemouth in the next six months - enabling speeds of up to 100Mbps. Bournemouth Borough Council is no stranger to a...

Tags: h2o, fibre, bournemouth

[08 May 2008]

Europe, India net gets cast under the sea

News Click here for all there is on broadband, from fibre to zombies. Verizon Communications's business unit said yesterday it would help build an undersea cable connecting Europe, India and the Middle East in order to expand its global network and...

Tags: internet, cable, verizon

[07 May 2008]

O2 hits 3G target at last

News Click here for all there is on broadband, from fibre to zombies. O2 has finally met the 3G coverage obligation that was part of the licence it acquired in 2000 for providing mobile broadband. Broadband from A-Z

Tags: 3g, o2, ofcom

[06 May 2008]

Photos: Tech ensures a smoother course

Photo No unnecessary fittings are permitted, leaving the carbon fibre hull exposed. The BT IMOCA 60 is the fruit of a title sponsorship deal between Team Ellen - headed up by iconic British yachtswoman Dame Ellen McArthur - and BT inked in September last...

Tags: yacht, ellen mcarthur, bt

[02 May 2008]

Euro e-health getting the right attention

News F is for Fibre An EC e-health survey has found the vast majority (87 per cent) of European doctors use a computer - and almost half (48 per cent) have a broadband connection. The report - entitled Benchmarking ICT use among General Practitioners in...

Tags: telemonitoring, healthcare, e-health

[28 Apr 2008]

BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software

News F is for Fibre BT and NetSuite have joined forces to bring web-based on-demand software to the telco's 1.6 million business customers. BT is offering NetSuite's business management applications and will soon provide customer relationship management...

Tags: smes, saas, crm, bt

[22 Apr 2008]

Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010

News F is for Fibre The US telecoms giant AT&T has claimed that, without investment, the internet's current network architecture will reach the limits of its capacity by 2010. Speaking at a Westminster eForum on web 2.0 this week in London, Jim Cicconi...

Tags: web, web 2.0, isps, government

[21 Apr 2008]

Europe embracing speedy fat pipes

News F is for Fibre More than a quarter of a billion Europeans regularly use the internet with around 80 per cent of those people being hooked up to broadband connections. Around three-quarters (77 per cent) of businesses in Europe are now using high...

Tags: online, i2010, eu, broadband

[18 Apr 2008]

Ofcom - high-fibre diet ordered for Broadband Britain

News Fibre could be laid through the UK's sewer ducts to help speed up the rollout of super fast broadband to homes and businesses across the country. The speed offered by fibre optic cable - up to 100Mb - is much faster than broadband speeds of...

Tags: telco, broadband, fibre

[16 Apr 2008]

Tesco to launch iTunes challenger

News F is for Fibre Tesco is launching an online music service next month with more than three million tracks available to download and more content to follow. Tesco Digital will initially offer all of the tracks in Window Media format with around half...

Tags: mp3, online, digital music, itunes

[15 Apr 2008]

Fibre Channel Over Ethernet in the Data Center: An Introduction

whitepaper Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is a newly proposed standard that is being developed by INCITS T11. The FCoE protocol specification maps Fibre Channel natively over Ethernet and is independent of the Ethernet forwarding scheme.

Tags: ethernet

[11 Apr 2008]

Cisco MDS FC Bladeswitch for IBM BladeCenter: Technical Overview

whitepaper The Cisco MDS FC Bladeswitch for IBM BladeCenter delivers embedded 4-Gb Fibre Channel performance for IBM BladeCenter platforms, allowing customers to consolidate Storage Area Network (SAN) environments with a Fibre Channel switch that delivers...

Tags: switching

[11 Apr 2008]

Implementing SATA Technology in the Enterprise Data Center

whitepaper Solutions with the right level of robustness were too expensive because of high-priced Fibre Channel (FC) drives. The enterprise data center has large amounts of business-important information that is only accessed periodically, but still must be...

Tags: storage management

[11 Apr 2008]

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