Cisco has the full breadth and depth of technology across the LAN, MAN and WAN to enable customers to interconnect data centers and offer business continuance, consolidated storage and backup applications, and unified storage management, all of which leads to a lower Total Cost of Ownership.
Cisco storage networking solutions provide:
- Business Continuance, including:
- High availability, security, QoS
- Disaster Recovery and Prevention
- Consolidated Backup - Lower TCO by:
- Storage Consolidation and Improved Capacity
- Utilization
- Centralized Backup
- Unified Storage Management
Some of the applications of storage networks are:
Storage Consolidation
Escalating storage requirements, rising management costs, and sharing information is driving the consolidation of storage resources. Underutilization of disk space and rising management costs can be reduced by efficiently pooling and scaling storage resources. Consolidation enables:
- Efficient utilization of resources
- Multiple system access to multiple storage devices, regardless of location
- Consolidation of multiple low-end storage systems into centralized, high-end systems
- Reduced administrative overhead with centralized storage management