With some recent upgrades to our Cisco MDS family of storage networking switches, I think its a good time to revisit strategies for protection against data loss, since it’s always a top of mind in any data center. While there …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on September 25, 2009 at 11:34AM
We’ve been talking about Cisco Data Center 3.0 vision & strategy for a while now. How Cisco Data Center 3.0 provides a granular, multi-phase journey for transforming data center to meet the evolving needs of the business with a strategy …Read more.
Posted by Kash Shaikh on June 18, 2009 at 05:33PM
Part 1 of a series of four interviews with Cisco and EMC experts in Storage Networking. Bill Marozas, Cisco Data Center Solutions Marketing, talks about the Cisco MDS 9000 , and what customers are asking him at EMC World this …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on May 20, 2009 at 10:21AM
Since Cisco first introduced the concept of oversubscribed Fibre Channel modules in the storage networking industry with the MDS 9000 Family, there has been quite a bit of confusion between oversubscribed and blocking architectures, often incorrectly using the two terms …Read more.
Posted by Paolo Perazzo on May 14, 2009 at 09:18AM
In the last post I talked about the importance of designing a platform vs. a box and the benefits associated to that choice. Now I’d like to spend some time going into more of the architectural details that make the …Read more.
Posted by Paolo Perazzo on April 03, 2009 at 01:13AM
When discussing unified fabric with customers these days, the conversation is increasingly shifting from “why?” to “how?” Here are some of the slides I will use to brief customers on the “how”. The important thing to note is that the …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 31, 2009 at 01:24AM
While I’ve seen a lot of kudos of our innovative Unified Computing System announcement in the last two weeks, I have been concerned by some of the “Cisco declaration of war” theme coverage. As someone here at Cisco, who has …Read more.
Posted by Kash Shaikh on March 27, 2009 at 09:05AM
I thought I would switch gears a bit and touch on one of the other pillars of the data center. Our storage environment continues to be a great story to tell and continues to be a source of interest with …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 26, 2009 at 11:11PM
Designing a (successful) product is always tricky; first of all, you need to properly define and wisely select your product requirements. But whatever market segment you are in, your product requirements will change over time. No matter how good you …Read more.
Posted by Paolo Perazzo on March 16, 2009 at 01:46AM
Over the week-end I was reading this article on unified fabric and storage and in particular a sentence surprised me: The likelihood is that storage arrays will be linked to the Nexus in this scheme by Ethernet and not Fibre …Read more.
Posted by Paolo Perazzo on March 12, 2009 at 05:59PM
A few months ago, one of our switching competitors started telling customers that our Catalyst switch was going to be put out to pasture, which, of course, was not even close to reality. Well, now it seems that the new …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on October 03, 2008 at 10:18AM
Just recorded this this morning here in Barcelona about our announcements at VMWorld in Las Vegas. dg
Posted by Douglas Gourlay on September 16, 2008 at 03:30PM
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