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 […]
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 […]
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,...
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
