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Host based mirroring kills your storage network!!

System administrators are very inventive and lazy. I know, I used to be one of them. 🙂 Everything that can be done to make ones life easier is about to be scripted, configured, designed etc.  If you are responsible for an overall environment from Apps to servers to networks and storage you can make very […]

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Open Source Software (OSS) and security breaches in proprietary firmware

It is no secret that many vendors use open source software in their products and solutions. One of the most ubiquitous  is Linux which is often the base of many of these products and used as core-OS because of it\’s flexibility and freely available status without the need of keeping track of licenses (to some

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Brocade \”compatible\” SFP\’s will disrupt your fabric.

As with all good stuff there are always people and companies that try to jump on the bandwagon and make some dollars by using cheap kit and sell it as \”Original\” or \”Compatible\” or \”Vendor equivalent\”. Don\’t fall for this trap and simply buy Original Vendor Branded & Supported equipment. One example is FiberStore.

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Brocade \”compatible\” SFP\’s will disrupt your fabric.

As with all good stuff there are always people and companies that try to jump on the bandwagon and make some dollars by using cheap kit and sell it as \”Original\” or \”Compatible\” or \”Vendor equivalent\”. Don\’t fall for this trap and simply buy Original Vendor Branded & Supported equipment. One example is FiberStore.

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The technical pathways of Brocade in cloud storage adoption

Brocade isn\’t always very forthcoming about what they are working on. Obviously a fair chunk of development and engineering efforts are spent on cloud integration  and enablement of their software and hardware stack into this computing methodology. Acquisitions like Foundry, Vyatta and now Connectem show that the horizon has broadened the views of Brocade. To

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Energy Efficient Fibre Channel and related cost savings

For years many storage environments have used both active-active and active-passive multipath (MPIO) access mechanisms to access storage arrays in a dispersed or linear method. On enterprise class storage arrays with global caches the active-active method is most often used while on modular arrays you\’ll see the active-passive scenario often applied. Inherently this means that

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