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Computer Technology Review, July 2005 - As SANs become more complex and more tightly integrated with network applications and other SANs, organizations are seeking ways to consolidate multiple SAN “islands” into a more cost-effective architecture. This special report explores how emerging strategies like fabric virtualization can lead to more scalable and cost-effective SANs while preserving the essential security and availability of traditional SAN architectures. |
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Gartner Data Center Summit, November 2005 - Cisco announced that European customers are finding great benefit in deploying intelligent fabric-based applications that take advantage of the open, standards-based approach of the Cisco MDS 9000 SSM. Combining the Cisco SSM with third party software applications provides an intelligent, scalable approach to address the challenges of storage provisioning, data migration, backup and recovery, and business continuity. |
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Cisco Systems and EMC Corporation announce their intention to provide customers with an end-to-end storage consolidation solution for remote-office data. By combining Cisco WAFS technology and EMC NAS, customers will have an integrated solution to consolidate branch office data into the data center, allowing company-wide data to be centrally stored, managed, protected and accessed. |
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Cisco Systems introduces the Cisco File Engine Series, appliance-based solutions utilizing WAFS technology, which provides IT administrators the means to simplify management and increase protection of their file-based data located at remote branch offices throughout their enterprise. |
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Columbus Regional Hospital, a US-based referral hospital, tripled the numbers of servers networked onto to its SAN using the multiprotocol (iSCSI) capabilities available in Cisco MDS 9509 Multilayer Intelligent Director. |
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SANs are currently one of the most exciting, dynamic and fast-growing areas of network technology development worldwide. The factors affecting the SAN market worldwide apply equally to the Asia Pacific region, where storage networking is experiencing tremendous growth. News@Cisco spoke to Christian Hentschel, Cisco director of Advanced Technologies and Solutions in Asia Pacific, to gain further insight into the progress of the SAN market in the region. |
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Cisco Systems introduced a number of software features for the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer Intelligent directors and fabric switches that will help make storage area networks (SANs) more secure, easier to configure and manage, and able to send data over longer distances faster and more efficiently. These innovations add to a comprehensive set of intelligent storage networking features already available in the Cisco MDS 9000 including Virtual SANs (VSANs), the industry's first SAN partitioning tool, and Quality of Service (QoS)-based traffic management.
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Cisco Systems added two products to its award-winning Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer Intelligent directors and fabric switches optimized for transporting storage area network (SAN) traffic outside of the data center, which make them ideally suited for business continuance, disaster recovery, and remote backup applications.
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