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Tony Antony

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Tony Antony, has more than 18 years of experience in Technology Marketing with primary focus on Networking, Storage and Virtualization Solutions. He received a master's degree in telecommunications from SMU, and a MBA from UTD. Tony's previous experience includes consulting, engineering, marketing and management positions at Texas Instruments and KPMG. He has authored numerous technical papers and published Two Cisco Press Books.

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Articles

May 8, 2017

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Cisco MDS and Dell EMC set new standards for enterprise storage performance

2 min read

An undeniable trend in the storage industry is what one might refer to as the democratization of all-flash storage as the technology becomes more economical and, therefore, more relevant for most use cases. Indeed, flash storage remains critical for Tier 0/Tier 1 applications such as enterprise databases, and its growing popularity to support broader sets […]

May 3, 2017

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Scale Your Data Center with the Nexus 9000 and Cloud Scale Technology

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There is no dispute that Cisco offers an unmatched portfolio of networking solutions that gives our customers the unique ability to simplify their IT infrastructure and optimize it for the many diverse on-prem and cloud-native applications they are deploying today. The Nexus 9000 is a foundational element of that portfolio that has been installed in […]

April 27, 2017

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Flash and Virtualization Give Customers More Reasons to Appreciate the Cisco/HDS Partnership

2 min read

Few years back, enterprise storage was primarily dependent on spinning disks built into stand-alone arrays. Then advent of flash storage changed everything in the storage industry landscape in terms of key performance factors. This includes flash storage arrays being able to transmit data at line rate, even for random reads, a behavior which is observed for […]

April 11, 2017

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Bringing Storage Area Networking to the Age of Hyper Scale Data

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There is no doubt that we are living in the Hyper Scale Data age when it comes to all things data storage related, which is impacting both consumers and companies. According to Cisco research, by the year 2020, the amount of data stored inside data centers is expected to grow by a factor of five, […]

March 20, 2017

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Cisco BGP EVPN in the datacenter

4 min read

Posting this blog on behalf of Babi Seal, Senior Manager, Product Management, INSBU, who has been driving  BGP EVPN based solutions in the datacenter. Digital disruptors have challenged established business models by creating new ways of engaging with customers in real-time to better serve the changing customer needs. To maximize revenue and maintain customer interest, […]

February 2, 2017

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Evolving the Nexus 9000 to Enhance Today’s Social, Mobile, Cloud and App-Centric World

3 min read

For most enterprises today, remaining competitive requires them to modernize their data center infrastructure to deliver operational services at the pace and scale of the cloud and DevOps. The Cisco...

December 13, 2016

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Nexus 7000 Innovations: Data Center Interconnect, Enhanced Scale, Enhanced Security and Investment Protection

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Digital transformation is a multi-trillion dollar global initiative that is placing enormous pressure on IT to move faster and manage the increasing diversity in the types of users, apps, and locations needed just to support their businesses’ bottom line. As a result, developers will create thousands of new enterprises apps that demand the utmost in […]

October 19, 2016

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Cisco Extends Storage Networking Solutions with Greater Data Protection, Increased Bandwidth and Simplified Provisioning

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Data is growing at an astonishing rate. Trends like cloud, IoT and digitization are imposing higher demands on how data is managed, transported, backed up and restored. Increased business dependence on IT means downtime has more meaningful and tangible impact on business operations. There is almost universally increased focus on disaster recovery and business continuance […]

October 11, 2016

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Dell EMC expanding ALL Flash Portfolio; New VMAX 250F with feature rich HYPERMAX OS

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Companies today are facing an increasingly competitive environment and continue to look for substantial differentiation in their market. The Storage and Storage Networking continues to play a vital role in enabling businesses to adopt new technologies and applications to help them scale and grow. Trends like the Internet of Things, Cloud, Big data and Flash […]

June 23, 2016

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Krones Optimizes Virtual Machine Load Balancing and SAN Performance

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In order to be more responsive in a highly competitive marketplace, organizations are transforming to support the 21st century needs by being more agile and efficient in delivering centralized applications and services to a geographically distributed customer base. To accomplish these goals, organizations are consolidating data centers, adding virtualization technologies, and leveraging cloud architectures. These […]

May 2, 2016

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EMC Unity and Cisco MDS: The Ultimate Storage Networking Solution for Simplicity and Value

2 min read

Facebook users post 350 million photos per day, and 4,501 per second, while Snapchat has 200 million users who share 8,796 photos per second. It took 10 years to decode the human genome, but it now can be done in less than a week. As these examples demonstrate, data is multiplying at an alarming rate […]

February 2, 2016

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Cisco Storage Networking Innovations to support high data growth and scale

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The SAN Also Rises: Cisco Delivers Storage Networking Innovations to Support High Data Growth, Scale and programmability. New user demands and shifting application requirements impose higher demands on data center,...

November 3, 2015

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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 […]

August 19, 2015

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Designing and Deploying Scalable SAN using Cisco MDS 9396S

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Data is the lifeblood of your business, and it continues to multiply exponentially, creating big challenges for today’s storage area network managers. Accessing that data quickly and cost-effectively 24 hours a day, 7 days a week requires a SAN architecture that can scale easily and economically while supporting a wide variety of protocols and storage […]

June 17, 2015

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Learn how new Cisco SAN Solutions maximize scale and performance

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Chances are that your storage area network (SAN) is already feeling the pressure from an avalanche of data.   All that data can add real value to your business, but only if you can access it and use it instantly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  To make this happen, IT managers need to […]

June 12, 2015

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Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is Alive and Kicking!

5 min read

On January 28, 2008, Cisco made headlines with the introduction of the market’s first Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Switch, the Nexus 5000. Cisco also reached out to ecosystem partners and demonstrated FCoE capabilities with them at various industry conferences.   When we introduced FCoE, we knew that it would revolutionize and transform the LAN/SAN […]

May 21, 2015

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New Cisco Storage Networking Innovations for the Agile Data Center

5 min read

Data is not just multiplying at an astounding rate. It is also changing dramatically in nature.  Trends like the Internet of Things, Mobility, Cloud, and Big Data Analytics are driving the adoption of different types of storage protocols and architectural requirements as well as increased application workloads in the IT environments. To help customers design […]

April 3, 2015

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Designing a SAN for the Next Decade

2 min read

In the era of digitalization, mobile, social and the Internet of Everything, Data Center and Cloud infrastructure are more and more representing a strategic business asset for organizations of all kind.  Companies are looking into how to best design, scale and integrate the various components in order to leverage synergies and simplify management. Application uptime […]

February 23, 2015

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Solving Congestion Problems in Storage Area Networks

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Solving Congestion Problems in Storage Area Networks This phenomenal growth puts tremendous pressure on Storage Area Networks (SANs), which must be able to handle the burgeoning traffic loads between the compute and storage layers. To maintain peak efficiency, storage administrators need to be able to quickly detect and resolve slow drain and other common SAN […]

December 8, 2014

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

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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. […]

November 17, 2014

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Discover the latest advances in Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) technology.

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IT managers are finding it increasingly challenging to deliver the services end users demand while keeping operating costs under control.  A truly converged environment, using Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) to combine LAN and SAN architectures, can substantially reduce operating costs and simplify management while providing increased performance now and in the future. How do […]

November 18, 2014

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Nimble Storage extends Adaptive Flash Platform with 16G FC, more deployment options

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As customers continue to look for points of differentiation in their markets, the Storage Area Network (SAN) continues to play a vital role in enabling businesses to adopt new technologies and applications to help them grow.  To provide the highest reliability, scalability, and performance, organizations have traditionally deployed Fibre Channel (FC) storage networks and many […]

October 27, 2014

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Introducing Nexus 5624Q Switch: Seamlessly Migration from 1G to 10G/40G

3 min read

Recent trends like Big Data, Video, and Collaboration are shaping the Enterprise IT environments.  At first glance, these trends might not seem like anything new.  But what is different is that technologies are now available that lets organizations deal with these trends in a better way ( for example 10/40/100G availability ,  Multicore processors driving […]

October 15, 2014

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Nexus 5600 Switches: Flexible, Reliable and widely adopted

4 min read

Recent trends like big data, BYOD, video and Internet of Things are putting more pressure on over all data center design.   Enterprise architects are looking for cost effective and innovative platforms to stay competitive in the market place.  Each application is unique and the network, storage and compute requirements for scaling and growing these applications […]

October 2, 2014

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High Performance at a Compelling Value – Learn more about Cisco MDS 9148S Fabric Switch

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Are you looking for a reasonably priced, yet powerful, flexible SAN solution? Cisco MDS 9148S Multilayer Fabric Switch, a new 16G Fibre Channel SAN solution for small to medium businesses. This switch is powerful and flexible, with up to 48 autosensing line-rate 16G Fibre Channel ports and comprehensive enterprise-class features in a compact one–rack unit […]

September 15, 2014

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EVRY protects SAN investment, expands Capabilities

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EVRY chooses Cisco MDS 9710 to adapt easily to emerging and future customer demands. EVRY provides IT services to businesses, financial institutions, national public sector entities, municipalities, and health authorities in Norway and other Nordic countries. EVRY’s virtualization deployments are expanding rapidly and customers deploying more applications placed higher demands on storage environments. EVRY’s requirements […]

September 8, 2014

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Cisco Storage Networking market share edged up to #1 – Dell’Oro Report

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Cisco market share has edged up to #1 position for the Storage Networking market (FC + FCoE segments), in calendar Q2, according to the recent Storage Networking share report by Dell’Oro Group, Cisco market share grew to 46.7%, up 5.3% from last quarter. The market share gain was supported by several factors, including: New SAN […]