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CONCLUSION
10GbE unied networking provides a simple, exible, and well-understood fabric for today’s virtualized data
centers and lays the groundwork for new computing models, including Cloud Computing, which will deliver
more intelligent, responsive data centers and greater business agility. With their long histories of leadership
in Ethernet networking and storage, respectively, Intel and NetApp are two companies that are helping IT
organizations transition to a unied data center fabric on 10GbE. Both companies are early supporters of
FCoE, with NetApp being the rst storage vendor to support native FCoE storage and Intel the rst Ethernet
adapter vendor to support Open FCoE. Proven and reliable products, standards leadership, and multi-protocol
architectures are a few key examples of why Intel and NetApp will be instrumental in leading the way to the
next-generation data center infrastructure.