availability

June 1, 2020

NETWORKING

Enterprise Network Availability: How to Calculate and Improve

11 min read

Key to supporting network availability is understanding the flexibility--or lack thereof—of the end-to-end network architecture. In this post, learn how to calculate and improve network stability.

September 13, 2018

DEVELOPER

Plan, Test, Deploy: The Best Ways to Prevent Network Outages

3 min read

New CI/CD tools help you ensure that changes to the network changes have a much higher rate of success.

November 3, 2015

CLOUD

The 3-Level Approach to Availability

2 min read

Availability is essential to smooth business operation. Many organizations think of availability in terms of network access. After all, if you can’t access your servers, you can’t do business. Availability in this sense is measured by how long the network is down per year. The cost of such downtime can be measured in millions of […]

December 22, 2014

DATA CENTER

Why Upgrade to MDS 9700

6 min read

MDS 9500 family has supported customers for more than a decade helping them  through FC speed transitions from 1G, 2G, 4G, 8G and 8G advanced without forklift upgrades. But as we look in the future the MDS 9700 makes more sense for a lot of data center designs.  Top four reasons for customers to upgrade are […]

October 1, 2014

DATA CENTER

MDS 9700 Scale Out and Scale Up

3 min read

This is the final part on the High Performance Data Center Design. We will look at how high performance, high availability and flexibility allows customers to scale up or scale out over time without any disruption to the existing infrastructure.  MDS 9710 capabilities are field proved with the wide adoption and steep ramp within first year […]

September 24, 2014

DATA CENTER

Next Generation Data Center Design With MDS 9700 – Part III

4 min read

Note: This is the third of a three-part series on Next Generation Data Center Design with MDS 9700; learn how customers can deploy scalable SAN networks that allow them to Scale Up or Scale Out in a non disruptive way.  Part 1 | Part 2 ] This week is exciting, had opportunity to sit on round […]

August 1, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco MDS for Small to Cloud-Scale Data Centers

7 min read

Superior Platforms, Scale, and Operational Simplicity  Data Center trends like  Virtualization, Solid State Drives, DC consolidation and Data Explosion are putting a tremendous amount of strain on the infrastructure. These challenges need targeted and multifaceted approach. It has to be holistic solution to the problems rather than point products for each unique problem. Data Centers […]

May 23, 2014

DATA CENTER

Next Generation Data Center Design With MDS 9710 – Part II

3 min read

Note: This is the second of a three-part series on Next Generation Data Center Design with MDS 9700; learn how customers can deploy scalable SAN networks that allow them to Scale Up or Scale Out in a non disruptive way.  Part 1 | Part 3 ] EMC World was wonderful. It was gratifying to meet industry professionals,  […]