Cisco MDS 32G FC

December 21, 2020

DATA CENTER

Cisco MDS 9000 and IBM FICON: Just Got Married Again

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Cisco MDS 9000 series (IBM C-series SAN switches) and IBM mainframe FICON are celebrating 16 years togehter. With the Cisco NX OS 8.4(2b) release, the Cisco MDS 9000 series is once again at the center of customers' preferences when it comes to both FICON and Fibre Channel switching.

April 27, 2017

DATA CENTER

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

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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 […]