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Storage/data convergence: Cisco stands alone
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Latency and jitter: Cut-through design pays off for Arista, Blade
In many data centers, latency and jitter are the most important metrics. Even the small amounts of delay (latency) or delay variation (jitter) introduced by a switch can have a profound impact on application performance.

Management and usability: Extreme goes its own way
For most switches tested, the main question when it comes to usability is "Can you speak IOS?" Every switch tested except Extreme's has a command-line interface (CLI) that resembles Cisco's. That's a smart design choice considering more network engineers are conversant in IOS than any other environment.

Multicast group capacity: Extreme comes out on top
As data center managers consolidate and virtualize their servers, the next order of business becomes moving all that traffic. Enter top-of-rack data center switches that offer speed, scalability, redundancy, virtualization support and other features not available in garden-variety Ethernet switches.

Link aggregation: Arista, Blade and Cisco fare best
Although link aggregation combines ports, it's not necessarily the case that throughput will scale linearly with port count. Fairness, or the uniformity of flow distribution across members of a link aggregation group (LAG), is always a concern.

Best practices for benchmarking SAN performance
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Four considerations for SSD deployment
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Clemson's computational colossus
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