Storage Area Networks (SANs)
We offer ideal features for competitive environments.
With the cost of data storage growing
faster than server costs, businesses need more efficient, cost-effective and
responsive storage area networks (SANs), without having to increase overall
power consumption. And, with the government regulations for data recovery,
24-hour access to critical information is imperative.
SANs
offer a variety of benefits
- Multiprotocol storage networking lowers total
cost of ownership and offers greater agility by integrating disparate protocols
such as FC, FICON, FCoE, iSCSI, and FCIP
- Unified OS and management tools reduce
operating expenses, simplify operations and offer seamless interoperability
- Enterprise-class storage connectivity supports
significantly higher virtualized workloads, to increase availability,
scalability, and performance
- Services-oriented SANs extend any
network service to any device, regardless of protocol, speed, vendor, or
location
Cisco
MDS 9000: flexible, agile, cost-effective
With Cisco MDS 9000 Switches, you can optimize physical
resources, reduce operating costs such as energy use, and decrease capital
expenditures to achieve lower total cost of ownership.
With industry-leading features and
advanced capabilities, Cisco
MDS 9000 switches continue to be the leading platform for hosting intelligent
multilayer services that fill business needs such as:
- SAN
consolidation
- Storage
encryption
- Disaster
recovery
- Data mobility
- SAN security
- Replication
The MDS 9000 product family also
facilitates server storage and fabric virtualization to provide an end-to-end
virtualization solution for the data center.
SANs are central to the Cisco Data Center
Business Advantage architecture. They provide a networking platform that helps
IT departments achieve lower total cost of ownership, enhanced resiliency, and
greater agility.