Storage White Papers

Tape and Disk Costs - What It really Costs to Power the Equipment [pdf only, 405kb]
Enterprises must consider energy costs when evaluating storage systems.

The Truth about Tape — Nine Myths to Reconsider [pdf only, 425kb]
The reports of the death of tape (to paraphrase the great American author Samuel Clemens) have been greatly exaggerated. Both disk and tape will exist in the data center for many years.

Brocade Tape Pipelining with Sun's StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager [pdf only, 119kb]
Brocade Tape Pipelining with Sun's StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager

Sun StorageTek 5800 System Architecture [pdf only, 1862kb]
Sun StorageTek 5800 System Architecture

Information Management: Discovering the Business Value of Archived Information [pdf only, 104kb]
Information Management: Discovering the Business Value of Archived Information

Digital Archiving Solutions for the Media and Entertainment Industry White Paper [pdf only, 357kb]
Digital Archiving Solutions for the Media and Entertainment Industry White Paper

The Brocade Data Center Fabric [pdf only, 115kb]
This paper describes the key issues facing IT organizations today and explains how the Brocade Data Center Fabric (DCF) provides an architectural foundation and evolutionary strategy for transforming today’s IT infrastructures into next-generation data centers with reduced cost, increased flexibility, and minimized risk.

Introducing the Brocade Data Center Fabric Architecture: Challenges and Solutions in the Data Center [pdf only, 208kb]
Enterprise data centers are undergoing a transformation driven by the need to reduce costs and increase performance. The evolving data center fabric exploits developing virtualization technologies for a data- and application-driven solution that reduces complexity and enables end-to-end management on a common framework. This paper describes the necessary evolution of the data center to meet these challenges.

Adaptive Networking—Brocade's Advanced Data Center Fabric Technology [pdf only, 206kb]
Adaptive networking services will become essential as evolving data center fabrics collapse server-to-storage, server-to-server, and storage-to-storage connectivity onto a common network connecting virtualized devices.

Cisco MDS 9000 Family Investment Protection [pdf only, 99kb]
White Paper: Cisco MDS 9000 Family Investment Protection