MDS

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Twenty years ago, Cisco started shipping the Cisco MDS 9000 storage networking switches. Since then, Cisco has introduced a number of groundbreaking storage networking innovations like Nexus switching and management technologies. These innovations have benefited our customers for decades now and have advanced the storage networking industry at large.

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In January 2023, we launched the third major release (12.1.2) of NDFC SAN Controller. This makes the perfect time to upgrade from DCNM to NDFC not just because three is a magic number, but also because of ten reasons that I am sharing in this post.

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Evolve your SAN with no disruption to support today's application workloads and performance requirements? Learn how with Cisco MDS.

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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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As customers move to architect their data centers to support cloud model to enable them to respond quickly to business needs, software management and orchestration plays a key role in making that happen. Simply put you need software that easily integrates with existing infrastructure and provides ease of fabric automation and flexibility, visibility, troubleshooting and […]

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I’m looking forward to EMC World 2016 at the Venetian in Las Vegas where thousands of attendees will meet and learn about the latest in compute, storage, networking, and solutions. ...

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One of the aspects I really enjoy about my job is that I get to learn from some of the world’s top network and data center design engineers, and...

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It’s finally here- the new Data Center and Cloud community framework has launched! We created new content spaces for Compute and Storage, Software Defined Networks, Data Center and Networking, and OpenStack...

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Complexity is easy. Simplicity is hard. Solving operational complexity has been one of the hardest challenges in data center and cloud build-outs. For customers, the challenge of interfacing with different...