IBM b-type Data Center Networking: Design and Best Practices Introduction

Preface

As organizations drive to transform and virtualize their IT infrastructures to reduce costs and manage risk, networking is pivotal to success. Optimizing network performance, availability, adaptability, security, and cost is essential to achieving the maximum benefit from your infrastructure.

In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we address these requirements:

•Expertise to plan and design networks with holistic consideration of servers, storage, application performance, and manageability

•Networking solutions that enable investment protection with a range of performance and cost options that match your environment

•Technology and expertise to design and implement and manage network security and resiliency

•Robust network management software ...