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RSS fibreBT shelves Phorm rollout plans
News BT said it had decided to prioritise on its fibre provision and initiatives such as Project Canvas, which aims to provide a common standard for broadband TV. We've an awful lot [of resources] on fibre... [06 Jul 2009]
BT kicks off London fibre pilot
News BT began a fibre broadband pilot on Monday in the north London suburb of Muswell Hill and the Cardiff suburb of Whitchurch. The pilot follows an internal Openreach trial in Ipswich of... [06 Jul 2009]
Large Hadron Collider's grid gets stressed
News The tests, called Scale Testing for the Experiment Programme '09, threw huge amounts of data around the distributed computing project, which uses dedicated optical-fibre networks to distribute data from Cern (the... [03 Jul 2009]
50p broadband tax 'will leave 20 pc of UK without fibre'
News BT reckons a government plan to put a 50p tax on copper lines in order to fund fibre broadband to the country's hard to get to places can only go so far - and will probably never reach the last fifth of the UK. [02 Jul 2009]
The Growing Need for Security in Storage Area Networks
White Paper This paper describes key aspects of Storage Area Network (SAN) security and how Brocade solutions help these organizations better secure their Fibre Channel SAN environments and the data stored within. [30 Jun 2009]
Oracle 10g Release 2 Performance and Tuning on an IBM System p Linux on POWER Platform
White Paper Recent Linux kernel enhancements such as huge page support, IBM POWER5+ 64 KB pages, libhugetlbfs, Fibre Channel and network adapter enhancements and other kernel processor tunings can be deployed to bring enterprise... [30 Jun 2009]
'Don't let European telecoms law get axed', says Ofcom
News These include the speeding up of number porting between operators, new guidelines on fibre access deployment and the use of radio spectrum, and the creation of a new pan-European regulatory body, called Berec. [26 Jun 2009]
Providing LUN Security
White Paper Virtual machines cannot see the physical Fibre Channel HBAs on the ESX Server host on which they run. Emerging mechanisms for LUN security in a virtual environment from Fibre Channel HBA vendors provide... [25 Jun 2009]
Comparing Storage Area Networks and Network Attached Storage
White Paper In addition, both SANs and NAS are based on open industry-standard network protocols - Fibre Channel for SANs and networking protocols such as TCP/IP for NAS. Often seen as competing technologies, Storage Area Networks... [25 Jun 2009]
Dell and City of Tulsa Break New Ground With Digital Images of Underground Pipelines
White Paper A Dell solution consisting of a Dell/EMC CX500 storage unit connected to five PowerEdge 1850 servers with two McData 16-port Fibre Channel switches and a PowerVault 36T tape backup device holds a large database of video... [25 Jun 2009]
A Dell and SAP Architecture Is the Ticket to Lowering IT Costs and Improving Manageability for SuperClubs International
White Paper SuperClubs International worked with Dell to implement a fully redundant, load-balanced Dell/EMC Fibre Channel storage unit; deploy SAP software on a server cluster running the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server operating... [25 Jun 2009]
RF Bandwidth Capacity and SCM in a Radio-Over-Fibre Link Employing Optical Frequency Multiplication
White Paper Emerging wireless standards, like IEEE 802.16, are moving towards the use of carrier frequencies beyond 10 GHz to provide increased data rates to the end user. Since these standards specify the radio interface access and physical layer... [25 Jun 2009]
Double the ROI of Your EVA With iSCSI
White Paper Traditionally, 1U and blade servers have not been attached to high end Fibre Channel storage due to the cost of adding those servers to the SAN. Since it uses iSCSI (running over standard Ethernet), this connectivity... [20 Jun 2009]
DellEMC AX100 Entry SAN Solution Addresses SME Demands
White Paper To address the data storage needs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) - to reduce cost and complexity - Dell and EMC have introduced a new entry SAN offering, the DellEMC AX100 Fibre Channel (FC) SAN solution. [18 Jun 2009]
Best Practices for Oracle Database 10g: Automatic Storage Management on Dell/EMC Storage
White Paper This paper reflects the cumulative storage design and tuning recommendations from Dell and Oracle teams on Oracle Database 10g solutions using Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell/EMC Fibre Channel storage, and Oracle Automatic... [18 Jun 2009]
