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		<title>Networking &amp; The Importance Of VLANs</title>
		<link>http://www.integrateddatastorage.com/blog/2012/04/13/networking-the-importance-of-vlans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Freisinger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Replication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VMware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CIFS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have become familiar with the term VLANs when talking about networking. Some people cringe and worry when they hear &#8220;VLAN&#8221;, while others rejoice and relish the idea. I used to be in the camp that cringed and worried - only because I did not have some basic knowledge about VLANs. So let&#8217;s start with the basics: what is a VLAN?  ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Shifting IT Workforce Paradigm Part II: Why Don&#8217;t YOU Know How &#8220;IT&#8221; Works In Your Organization?</title>
		<link>http://www.integrateddatastorage.com/blog/2011/12/20/why-dont-you-know-how-it-works/</link>
		<comments>http://www.integrateddatastorage.com/blog/2011/12/20/why-dont-you-know-how-it-works/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Hockenbarger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Backup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Computing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[business applications]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[CPU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data center]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[IOPS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[it]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.integrateddatastorage.com/?p=4009</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I write about CIO&#8217;s taking an increased business-oriented stance in their jobs, I sometimes forget that without a team of people who are both willing and able to do that, their ability to get out of the data center and into the board room is drastically hampered. I work with a company from time to time ...]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Better Than Advil For Datacenter Headaches? An Organized Datacenter!</title>
		<link>http://www.integrateddatastorage.com/blog/2011/12/06/whats-better-than-advil-for-datacenter-headaches-an-organized-datacenter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.integrateddatastorage.com/blog/2011/12/06/whats-better-than-advil-for-datacenter-headaches-an-organized-datacenter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Freisinger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How To]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[datacenter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[datacenter management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[network cable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organized datacenter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PDU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rack cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[server cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[server rack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[switch rack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[troubleshooting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.integrateddatastorage.com/?p=3860</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How does your datacenter, server rack or switch rack look? Like a rats nest?  If you had a power problem how long would it take you to track down the bad power cord? Additionally how much time would you waste figuring out if it was a bad network cable, NIC, or switch port?  Yes, it can be a daunting task to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Running Out of IP Addresses?! Fear Not, IPv6 Here to Save the Day</title>
		<link>http://www.integrateddatastorage.com/blog/2011/10/27/internet-running-out-of-ip-addresses-fear-not-ipv6-here-to-save-the-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.integrateddatastorage.com/blog/2011/10/27/internet-running-out-of-ip-addresses-fear-not-ipv6-here-to-save-the-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ashbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Backup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How To]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[32 bit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[connectivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exhaustion dates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HEX]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IP addresses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IPv4]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IPv6]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Port Address Translation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As everyone may (or may not be) aware, we are running out of IP version 4 addresses. Okay, not really, but they have almost all been given out to service providers to pass on to customers. At that point, they will eventually run out. Fear not. This doesn&#8217;t mean that the internet will come to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Sick Over Gateway Redundancy? Cisco&#8217;s Got A Solution For That &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.integrateddatastorage.com/blog/2011/10/17/sick-over-gateway-redundancy-ciscos-got-a-solution-for-that/</link>
		<comments>http://www.integrateddatastorage.com/blog/2011/10/17/sick-over-gateway-redundancy-ciscos-got-a-solution-for-that/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ashbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cisco]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Active Virtual Forwarders]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Address Resolution Protocol]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[failover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GLBP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Load Balancing Protocol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hot Standby Router]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.integrateddatastorage.com/?p=3591</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A testament to the ever adapting pioneers that they are, Cisco has developed the first gateways redundancy protocol: Hot Standby Router (HSRP). HSRP allows for default gateways to be failed over to another router, based on a priority that can rise or fall contingent upon interface tracking. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) created a standard that is ...]]></description>
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		<title>Cisco UCS Platform: Would A Blade Server Chassis By Any Other Name Smell As Sweet? #datacenter</title>
		<link>http://www.integrateddatastorage.com/blog/2011/04/25/cisco-ucs-platform-would-a-blade-server-chassis-by-any-other-name-smell-as-sweet-datacenter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.integrateddatastorage.com/blog/2011/04/25/cisco-ucs-platform-would-a-blade-server-chassis-by-any-other-name-smell-as-sweet-datacenter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Langley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cisco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UCS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VMware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blade chassis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cisco]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[IP KVM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[networking]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[unified computing system]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.integrateddatastorage.com/?p=1931</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When a familiar brand such as Nike or McDonald&#8217;s releases a new product, an amazing thing occurs which has absolutely nothing to do with what they are selling. These companies have such a strong brand name relationship with the consumer, that the product is immediatly assigned value. Prospective customers are open to at least trying it, while loyal customers have an ...]]></description>
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		<title>EMC VSI Plug-in To The Rescue! Saving You From Management via Pop Up Screens (#fromthefield)</title>
		<link>http://www.integrateddatastorage.com/blog/2011/03/10/emc-vsi-plugin-to-the-rescue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.integrateddatastorage.com/blog/2011/03/10/emc-vsi-plugin-to-the-rescue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eli Mercado</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clariion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EMC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VMware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celerra]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.integrateddatastorage.com/?p=1633</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most administrators have multiple monitors so that they can manage multiple applications with one general view. Unfortunately, what ends up happening is that your monitors start looking like a pop up virus—a window for storage, a window for networking, a window for email and a window for Internet. EMC and VMware brought an end managing ...]]></description>
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		<title>Update on FCoE: The Current State of Real World Deployments</title>
		<link>http://www.integrateddatastorage.com/blog/2011/01/31/update-on-fcoe-the-current-state-of-real-world-deployments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.integrateddatastorage.com/blog/2011/01/31/update-on-fcoe-the-current-state-of-real-world-deployments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Lah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Storage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.integrateddatastorage.com/?p=1099</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[FCoE has been out in the marketplace now for approximately two years and I thought it’d be good to discuss what we’re seeing in the real world regarding deployment. Background For those not familiar with Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), it is being hailed as a key new technology that is a first step towards ...]]></description>
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		<title>7.5 Reasons Why I Like the Nexus 5000 Series Switches</title>
		<link>http://www.integrateddatastorage.com/blog/2011/01/10/7-reasons-why-i-like-the-nexus-5000-series-switches/</link>
		<comments>http://www.integrateddatastorage.com/blog/2011/01/10/7-reasons-why-i-like-the-nexus-5000-series-switches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Just</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cisco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.integrateddatastorage.com/?p=1065</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[1) vPC &#8211; Virtual Port Channels A Port Channel based connectivity option that allows downstream switches and hosts to connect to a pair of Nexus 5000 vPC peer switches as if they were one switch. This allows the host or switch to use two or more links at full capacity. 2) Copper SFP+ Twinax cable ...]]></description>
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