Cisco SAN

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Today’s Storage Area Networks (SAN) need to evolve to 64G Fibre Channel to support the increasing application workloads and performance requirements. Learn more about Cisco’s 64G module that provides a range of innovations to help SAN customers adopt and evolve their SAN today.

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Current sustainability efforts require power-efficient solutions that can deliver more bandwidth at a reduced wattage. Cisco recently introduced 48 ports on the Cisco MDS 9700 64-Gbps Fibre Channel Switching Module, a real technological breakthrough. Increased bandwidth, combined with approximately 40% decrease in power consumption makes it about 7 times more power efficient than its predecessor.

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Cisco DIRL offers solutions to SAN congestion without any dependency on hosts or storage. Cisco DIRL is innovative technology that bridges the performance gaps between ultra-fast All-Flash NVMe storage Arrays and slower application servers.

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In this blog series, we’ve discussed many unique advantages of the Cisco MDS 9000 series switches. We explored NVMe/FC support, proven investment protection, the superior security provided by anti-counterfeit technology, and the industry’s unique SAN Analytics solution. Now, let’s look at another important aspect: the Cisco MDS 9000 Series switch architecture and what makes it […]

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Cisco is the leader in data center networking, providing choices in terms of storage protocols. Cisco is honored to be a one-stop-shop offering in-line analytics to meet customer storage networking needs, across these various NVMe protocols, in an architecture which respects and protects the investments customers have made in their network.