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FCoE Primer

Dennis Martin has written a three-part series of articles on Data Center Bridging (DCB) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). These are:

• Part 1: FCoE and Data Center Bridging (DCB)
• Part 2: Data Center Bridging and FCoE implementation
• Part 3: Managing Unified Networking and Storage Fabric: Who’s in Charge?

These articles are available here.

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Featured Case Study

Financial giant goes green

The corporate IT group of a very large, worldwide financial organization with 100,000 employees, has initiated an ongoing “greening” process. This is focused largely on reducing energy use both to decrease the corporation's carbon footprint while creating a net savings in operational costs over the lifetime of new, more energy-efficient equipment, including new storage systems.

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Planning a Green Storage Initiative

Fluctuating energy prices have heightened electricity and energy consumption as a major issue within the technology community. IT is a significant consumer of energy and IT energy costs have been rising disproportionately because of continued investment in denser IT equipment. Estimates from the EPA and others indicate that IT will account for 3% of energy consumption by 2012.

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