Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
In our Storage Products of the Year for 2007, check out which products ranked the best in the networking equipment category.
Networking equipment
The top winners in this category are:
- Gold Award:
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Xsigo Systems Inc. VP780 I/O Director
Xsigo Systems Inc.'s VP780 I/O Director delivers converged IO, which means that all servers have access to all LANs and SANs. This is useful in virtualized environments where IO patterns are frequently changing. Some have called this concept the...
- Silver Award:
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Riverbed Technology Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS) 4.0
In 2007, Riverbed Technology released a major upgrade to its Steelhead wide-area data services appliances and Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS) 4.0 OS. The upgrades enhance the security and scalability of data transfers between branch offices and...
- Bronze Award:
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The Storwize Inc. STN-6000 appliance only does one thing: Compresses data to reduce storage capacity by up to five times the uncompressed data. Even though the STN-6000 sits in the network, it doesn't degrade performance as data passes from the...