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  Bendigo and Adelaide Bank upgrades customer service applications

  In a bid to support its growing customer business applications, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has installed two IBM XIV Gen3 storage systems.

  By Hamish Barwick | 30 January, 2012 11:21

  Tags: Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Ltd, IBM, san, storage

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  The fine art of Fibre Channel troubleshooting

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

  By Jim Bahn, director of product marketing, Virtual Instruments | 26 January, 2012 09:25

  Tags: Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel troubleshooting, LAN & WAN, network-attached storage, real-time monitoring, san, SAN monitoring, SAN troubleshooting, storage

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  Converging SAN traffic in the data center

  Klebanov is a technical solutions architect with Cisco Systems. He has 15 years of network industry experience. In recent years he has been closely involved with architecting data center solutions. He can be reached at klebanov@cisco.com or on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidklebanov

  By David Klebanov, technical solutions architect, CCIE #13791, Cisco Systems | 14 December, 2011 04:31

  Tags: Cisco Systems, Configuration / maintenance, Data Center, data center bridging, fcoe, hardware systems, iscsi, LinkedIn, multihop FCoE, network-attached storage, san, SAN convergence, single hop FCoE, storage, storage services, united fabrics

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  Geelong Grammar School implements scalable SAN, disaster recovery

  Geelong Grammar School has reduced back-up and recovery time after installing a scalable storage system.

  By Lisa Banks | 11 November, 2011 12:11

  Tags: geelong grammar school, netapp, san, storage

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  SAN/LAN convergence can pay dividends today

  Today's workers want faster computing speeds and more storage, management wants it all under budget, and IT professionals are scrambling to save money and improve productivity. The tools of choice to achieve these goals are typically virtualization cloud computing and data center consolidation, but IT may be overlooking a simple but effective fix: storage area network (SAN) and local area network (LAN) convergence.

  By Mike Hronek, CDW Networking Solutions Architect | 08 September, 2011 01:27

  Tags: cloud computing, Configuration / maintenance, hardware systems, internet, LAN, network-attached storage, networking, san, SMB, SMB Networking, storage, Virtualization

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  The best hardware and software of the year

  Each year, the editors and reviewers of the InfoWorld Test Center gather to look over the list of products that earned the highest marks in stand-alone reviews or came in first in multiproduct shoot-outs. We then determine which ones were particularly praiseworthy and present the very best with Technology of the Year awards. These awards inherently reflect the changes in technology that have occurred during the past year and serve to highlight emerging trends.

  By Andrew Binstock | 12 January, 2011 22:06

  Tags: applications, cloud computing, Development tools, hardware, internet, mobile, Mobile platforms, networking, open source, operating systems, processors, san, security, software, storage, Telecommunication, Virtualization, WAN (wide area networking)

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  James Cook University moves away from Compellent, Sun and Storage Tech to IBM's XIV

  Plagued with “exorbitant” maintenance costs due to out of control data growth, Queensland’s James Cook University (JCU) has overhauled its storage area network (SAN) in a $1 million upgrade to IBM’s XIV system.

  By Chloe Herrick | 18 October, 2010 10:32

  Tags: Compellant, IBM, James Cook University (JCU), san, storage, Storage Tech, sun

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  Within Reach of Most IT Budgets, SANs Pay Off

  Storage area network (SAN)technology has been around since the late 1990s, but historically it was priced far out of the range of small IT departments. Now this option for making more-efficient use of data storage has become affordable for all but the smallest of IT shops.

  By Michael Scalisi | 22 June, 2010 00:06

  Tags: san, storage

• Brocade boosts 10G Ethernet density for data centers

  Brocade this week rolled out 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 8Gbps FibreChannel modules for its routers and storage-area network switches designed to increase the wire-speed density of both platforms to better support network consolidation and improve service levels.

  By Jim Duffy | 02 June, 2010 15:08

  Tags: brocade, datacentre, san

• 10 tips for boosting network performance

  Tracking and cracking network performance problems is no easy task. More than a matter of identifying often mystifying bottlenecks, ensuring network efficiency requires an almost preternatural understanding of your organization's IT operations, as well as a thick skin for withstanding the heat when problems inevitably arise.

  By Matt Prigge and Paul Venezia | 02 June, 2010 04:50

  Tags: networking, san

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  MYOB accounts for storage with virtualisation

  Accounting software maker MYOB has consolidated its storage from distributed servers to a virtualised SAN system to reduce costs and speed up its server provisioning capability.

  By Rodney Gedda | 28 January, 2010 14:42

  Tags: EMC, MYOB, san, virtualisation, VMware

• Compellent adds RAID 6 to Storage Center SAN

  Compellent has launched Storage Center 5 incorporating several new features aimed at simplifying data replication and improving virtualisation.

  By Maxwell Cooter | 15 January, 2010 01:51

  Tags: san, storage

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  Cisco releases services-oriented SAN network line card

  Cisco Systems Inc. today announced a new network line card based on a services-oriented architecture (SOA) that offers four different functions for storage area networks (SANs) that can be licensed separately and deployed regardless of the back-end storage hardware.

  By Lucas Mearian | 15 January, 2010 00:12

  Tags: Cisco, san, soa

• Best practices for benchmarking SAN performance

  Storage-area network complexity can mask what might seem to be relatively benign issues that have the potential to build up and cause an outage or brownout. To identify trouble early, you need to create a SAN performance benchmark, an essential first step to setting up metrics to gauge infrastructure performance.

  By Craig Foster | 21 December, 2009 17:34

  Tags: best practice guide, networking, san, storage

• Data Robotics ships Drobo iSCSI SAN

  Data Robotics today released its first iSCSI SAN storage array that, like its other low-end arrays, manages itself and allows any capacity or brand of disk drive to be mixed, matched and exchanged without any downtime.

  By Lucas Mearian | 24 November, 2009 06:53

  Tags: drobo, iscsi, san, storage