Business Continuance and Transparent Mobility

Cisco Data Center Interconnect (DCI) solutions enables IT organizations to meet business continuance and corporate compliance objectives, and provide benefits that include:

Reducing business impact of localized and large footprint disaster events
Improving productivity through enhanced application and data availability
Meeting corporate and regulatory compliance needs and improving data security

These solutions transparently extend LAN and SAN connectivity and provides accelerated, secure data replication, server clustering and workload mobility between geographically-dispersed data center sites. This allows organizations to enhance business resilience, and enable application and data mobility between data centers, while maintaining operational consistency.

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Data Center Interconnect (DCI) At-A-Glance

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Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series LAN Extension Solutions

Increase processing power, distribute workloads, and increase application availability.

Cisco MDS 9500 Series SAN Extension Over IP

This integrated, cost-effective, reliable business continuance solution uses the existing IP infrastructure.

IT groups need to deliver always-on services, while meeting corporate initiatives to reduce capital and operational expenses. To improve application and data availability, while reducing total cost of operations, IT must provide disaster recovery across geographically-distributed active data centers.

Cisco Data Center Interconnect (DCI) solutions extend LAN and SAN connectivity across geographically-dispersed data centers. These solutions allow organizations to provide high-performance, non-stop access to business-critical applications and information. They support application clustering, as well as Virtual Machine (VM) mobility between data centers, to optimize computing efficiency and business continuance.

These solutions offer flexible connectivity options to address LAN and SAN extension needs across optical, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), or IP infrastructures. They also provide: