http://www.silicon.com Results for SAN en-us http://www.silicon.com/i/s/feeds/simple_logo.gif http://www.silicon.com 124 50 News feed from silicon.com http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39658906,00.htm The tie-ups were announced at Salesforce.com's annual Dreamforce user conference in San Francisco this week, where BMC CEO Bob Beauchamp and CA CEO John Swainson both joined Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff on stage for the announcement. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:56:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39656455,00.htm Speaking at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce user conference in San Francisco, CEO Marc Benioff said Chatter was the company's "fourth cloud" - joining its Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and Custom Cloud. Salesforce.com has unveiled a technology that it... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:20:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39890503,00.htm Chief executive Marc Benioff announced the service in San Francisco at the company's Dreamforce conference, which he said drew 19,000 attendees. Salesforce.com on Wednesday announced a social-networking service called Salesforce Chatter for its... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:57:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60800778p,00.htm Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) arrays enable advanced integration with the robust server virtualization offered by the Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V™ virtualization platform—offering... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60817615p,00.htm Backing up data using traditional methods such as tapes, SAN, or NAS have many problems that only get worse over time while using an online backup strategy securely over the Internet continues to have more and more benefits. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60812781p,00.htm Emulex is currently the only vendor offering NPIV support in its HBAs, both traditional and blade-sized, and drivers. NPIV has been implemented cooperatively by Emulex and IBM and is now successfully deployed on the IBM zSeries mainframe product... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60812754p,00.htm The paper considers the problem of optimal SAN configuration with the goal of meeting Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for server processes while retaining flexibility for future changes. First, one gives an algorithm for assigning storage devices... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60812782p,00.htm Moving Storage Area Network (SAN) and Local Area Network (LAN) traffic onto a single transport benefits data centers in many ways. The development of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) opens the door to the real possibility of transporting more... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39637918,00.htm Michael Deutch, San Francisco The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week. The Naked CIO gets some mixed reactions to his views on the redundancy of social networks... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:01:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39635524,00.htm AT&T Labs in San Francisco opened its doors on Thursday to show off its Emerging Devices division, as well as some research projects around location-based services, social networking, and medical devices of the future. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:55:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60046546p,00.htm Options for connecting computers to storage have increased in a short time. Variations and associated acronyms for storage networking seem to be materializing faster than they can be tracked. Storage networking offers capabilities and flexibilities... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:28:46 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60801620p,00.htm But one aspect that often gets overlooked is the role SAN disk defragmenting plays in improving performance. In particular, companies overlook the performance degradation due to file system fragmentation within a SAN. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60640480p,00.htm But one aspect that often gets overlooked is the role SAN disk defragmenting plays in improving performance. In particular, companies overlook the performance degradation due to file system fragmentation within a SAN. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:08:45 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60800775p,00.htm This ESG Lab report examines the economic excellence of highly scalable EqualLogic iSCSI storage solutions compared to traditional direct attached storage (DAS), Fibre Channel storage area network (FC SAN), and multi-protocol solutions (defined as... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60325298p,00.htm The IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) has unique SAN fabric configuration requirements that are different from what one may be used to for other storage devices. A quality SAN configuration can go a long way towards a stable, reliable, and scalable... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:56:28 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60580812p,00.htm As IT environments continue to grow and become increasingly complex, one need an easy way to ensure the health and optimal performance of the IP and SAN environment. EMC enables storage managers to proactively eliminate invalid SAN configurations... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:42:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39607328,00.htm One AR iPhone app in the pipeline - called WorkSnug - will offer mobile workers in London and San Francisco a solution to their wi-fi finding blues, as the video below shows: Is this another name for Apple CEO Steve Jobs' infamous reality... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:03:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39568555,00.htm Another reader, an iPhone and Mac app developer from San Francisco, added: "Years and years ago it was demonstrated that it costs no more to support a heterogeneous environment of Macs and PCs than it does to support a PC-only environment (and, by... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:47:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60741014p,00.htm One of the major requirements of any SAN administration team is to provide users and applications with adequate performance levels. This task becomes increasingly difficult with demands for high performance growing while budgets for storage systems... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:22:12 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60655216p,00.htm Coping with SAN Storage Frustration Caused by Server Virtualization The results are both operationally and economically compelling, however, they are not without their pitfalls as server virtualization unless properly managed with appropriate SAN... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:30:59 +0000