By Anshu Shrivastava, TMCnet Contributor
Panduit, a developer and provider of unified physical infrastructure (UPI) solutions, has released an IBM red paper entitled “Planning for Converged Fabrics − The Next Step in Data Center Evolution.”
IBM (News – Alert) has developed this red paper in collaboration with IBM experts. It’s expected to introduce Panduit’s audience to the concepts of converged fabrics and their implementation using the emerging Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) technology. Company officials said that the red paper outlines the techniques to demonstrate proper deployment, also an efficient management, of FCoE in any type of environment – from small-scale lab infrastructures to large-scale data center environments with hundreds of servers and storage. Additionally, this Redpaper also defines how products from IBM and IBM business partners, such as Panduit, facilitate the physical deployment of FCoE products, as well allow the efficient management of FCoE infrastructures, according to company officials. Jack Tison, chief technology officer at Panduit, noted that as compute, networking, and storage infrastructures have grown, so too have the complexity and costs of procurement, deployment, and management of these infrastructures. “As a result, there is now much more attention on server virtualization and infrastructure consolidation.” Tison said, that is why the company is “excited” to be part of this IBM red paper that will help customers to better plan their own technology convergence and transition to an FCoE based infrastructure for greater efficiency and flexibility. Panduit provides the broadest offering of end-to-end high speed data transport (HSDT) solutions that enable InfiniBand, 40/100 Gig, FCoE cabling. The company’s HSDT offerings include 10Gig SFP
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