Doing some research for a network upgrade project and thought I would share.
Converged Networking/Infrastructure
Finally really coming of age. I have built custom solutions, in fact I'm operating on one now, but now the vendors are really supporting this at the physical, logical, and application layers.
I always frowned at having to keep two parallel networks operating: one for the LAN (ethernet), and one for the SAN (Fibre Channel). I had started to move to one network, with seperate subnets and vlans. Which was finally supported by FCoE (fiber channel over ethernet), if you didn't want to just use NAS.
Two offerings that I have researched recently now flatten or converge the network even further: Cisco Unified Fabric, and HP FlexFabric. And now with 10GE LAN speeds... yeah, major ROI savings and network reliability.
Any way, I enjoyed some high level business analytical reading and thought I would share. Enjoy the white papers linked above.
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