Storage/SAN ConsolidationThe Cisco and EMC alliance provides industry-leading products that enable data center availability, scalability, security, investment protection, and management. This allows customers to deploy high-performance SANs with the lowest total cost of ownership. Businesses that want to consolidate data centers and SAN islands can achieve significantly improved operational efficiency and cost-effective SAN extension for business continuance/disaster recovery.
Business Continuance (Storage/Optical)Cisco and EMC offer a comprehensive portfolio of business continuance and disaster recovery solutions that can be adopted to meet the specific business and technical needs of the customer. These solutions are supported by integrated operating management, collaborative testing, and support.
Branch-Office Consolidation (WAAS/NAS)EMC and Cisco are providing an end-to-end solution that allows customers to consolidate their branch file services to centralized shared storage. The solution helps customers:
For more information on WAAS visit http://www.cisco.com/go/waas High-Performance File Systems (HPFS)Together, Cisco and EMC offer a high-performance file-systems (HPFS) solution that can be adapted to meet the business and technical needs of companies requiring a fast, cost-effective, scalable, and manageable single file system that can be centrally protected. Common examples of HPFS include:
The HPFS solution is supported by integrated operating management, collaborative testing, support, services, and ongoing collaboration and development efforts. Designing High-Performance EMC File Systems Using Cisco MDS iSCSI File VirtualizationCisco and EMC have collaborated on documentation describing how to deploy an EMC Rainfinity File Virtualization system in a Cisco Catalyst infrastructure.
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