Running Virtualization on Cisco MDS 9509 Multilayer Director Switch will Help German University to Improve Efficiency of Existing and Future Data Storage Assets
COLOGNE, Germany, February 20, 2004 – Cisco Systems® today announced that the University of Cologne is deploying a network-hosted storage virtualization solution using the IBM TotalStorage® SAN Volume Controller Storage Software for the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer Intelligent directors and fabric switches. The deployment will help the University of Cologne to manage its disparate data storage assets centrally, and to increase the availability of storage overall and for individual faculties. The project will also help facilitate more cost-effective purchasing of future storage assets, and support more storage-intensive research projects.