A secure, highly available and self-healing network is at the core of the data center fabric. The Cisco Unified Fabric architecture delivers resiliency and security at the component and system level through capabilities such as Non-stop Forwarding and Stateful Switchover, Virtual Port Channels and Fabric Path. The result is unrivaled availability and fault tolerance at all layers of the data center including network, compute and storage.
Benefits for
Highly available systems with limited or no outages. The Aberdeen Group calculates the average IT outage costs $110,000 per hour.
Continuity of application services
A single fabric eliminates LAN and SAN islands and allows sharing of expensive resources such as applications and storage
Learn More
- Achieve Fabric Resiliency with Cisco Unified Data Center Architecture
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- Cisco Virtualized Multiservice Data Center Framework: Deliver IT as a Service
- Cisco Virtualized Multiservice Data Center Reference Architecture: Building the Unified Data Center