MDS 9700

November 3, 2015

DATA CENTER

Eliminating Congestion Problems in Storage Area Networks

2 min read

Today’s storage area networks (SANs) face tremendous pressure from the phenomenal growth of digital information and the need to access it quickly and efficiently. Worldwide data is projected to multiply by an astonishing 1000 percent by 2020. It’s little wonder, then, that storage administrators rank slow drain and related SAN congestion issues as their number-one […]

December 8, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco Storage Networking market share #1 (FC+FCoE), #1 FC Modular

2 min read

Dell’Oro just released the Q3 CY2014 SAN Switching Market Share results, and for the second quarter in a row, Cisco came out at #1 in combined FC + FCoE revenue. Only this time, we widened the gap by 9 points! We also took #1 in FC Modular share, with an impressive 11.6% Q/Q share gain. […]

May 11, 2014

DATA CENTER

Webinar Series: High-Performance Data Center Design with Cisco MDS 9700 Multilayer Director

1 min read

Data centers are undergoing a major transition to meet higher performance, scalability, and resiliency requirements with fewer resources, smaller footprint, and simplified designs. These rigorous requirements coupled with major data center trends, such as virtualization, data center consolidation and data growth, are putting a tremendous amount of strain on the existing infrastructure and adding complexity. […]

November 21, 2013

DATA CENTER

Customer Adoption Series: LinkedIn deploys MDS 9710 to reliably connect world’s professionals

3 min read

A couple of months ago, we introduced the new Cisco MDS 9700 Series Multilayer Directors. The new Cisco MDS 9710 Director establishes a new benchmark for performance – delivering more than three times the bandwidth of any Director in the industry.  Since the launch, several of our customers deployed MDS 9710 successfully and reaped the […]

October 31, 2013

DATA CENTER

16 Gb Fibre Channel Market adoptions: EMC 16Gb connectivity (VMAX) announcement

1 min read

For about 2 decades, Fibre Channel has been deployed to support the most rigorous and demanding applications, and  is mainly because FC possesses certain characteristics that enterprise customers embrace, i.e – reliability, performance and scalability.   16Gb Fibre Channel is one of the preferred choice for mission-critical applications that required deterministic low latency networks to connect […]