Storage Area Networks Evolve

Storage area networks in enterprise infrastructures are evolving rapidly to meet three primary business requirements:

• Reduce capital and operating expenses
• Increase agility to support changing business priorities, application requirements, and revenue growth
• Improve long-distance replication, backup, and recovery to meet regulatory requirements and industry best practices

Cisco can help IT managers meet these requirements with an enterprisewide approach to deploying scalable, highly available, and more easily administered storage area networks.

Cisco solutions for intelligent storage area networks are an integral part of an enterprise data center architecture and provide a better way to access, manage, and protect growing information resources across a consolidated Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP), Small Computer System Interface over IP (iSCSI), gigabit Ethernet, and optical network.

Storage Area Networks Meet Business Objectives

Cisco MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Storage Area Network Switches can lower storage costs and accelerate migration of storage area networks from discrete to interconnected systems. Multiple layers of intelligence help in reaching optimal solutions for five specific objectives: