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The Promise of Unified I/O Fabrics
Overview Two trends are challenging the conventional practice of using multiple, specialized I/O fabrics in the data center: server form factors are shrinking and enterprise applications are requiring more connections per server. However, the current practice of using multiple Ethernet and Fibre Channel connections on each server to support fully redundant, cluster-enabled computing environments inhibits scalability. Unified, high-performance I/O fabrics can enhance scalability by providing a single fault-tolerant connection. This approach allows legacy communication technologies to use one I/O "superfabric," and the reduction in physical connections can help achieve better performance, greater flexibility, and lower total cost of ownership - the primary benefits of the scalable enterprise.
| Publisher | Dell | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | February 2005 | Downloads | 69 |
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