by Osman Javed

With the increasing demand for data from a wide variety of storage devices in an enterprise-class storage system, it has become necessary to use point-to-point data transfer protocols such as PCI Express (PCIe) to ensure high bandwidth transfers with a guaranteed quality of service. The PCIe Gen3 specification supports data bandwidth of 8GB/s per lane in each direction, thereby enabling host servers to transfer data at high speeds between storage devices and system memory.

by Ran Nahmias

This article is the first in a two-part series addressing the challenges associated with Lawful Interception (LI) and compliance inherent to virtualization within converged network environments. The second part introduces the virtual Tap and explores how it can cost-efficiently meet many of the needs of Lawful Interception.

Virtualization has provided network architects with exceptional new levels of flexibility and cost-savings in their server deployments. At the same time, however, that flexibility creates new opportunities to conceal unlawful activity and to frustrate or delay enforcement, Lawful Interception (LI), and prosecution by moving a virtual host across legal or geographical jurisdictions.