Cisco revamps centre portfolio
The new and enhanced products stretch across Cisco's Nexus switching line, MDS SAN platform, Unified Computing System server offering and NX-OS operating system software, among others.
They are intended to more tightly integrate and unify servers, storage and networks into a data centre fabric designed to simplify operations and scale into the cloud.
Cisco's feeling the heat from multiple fronts in the data centre and, conversely, other vendors are feeling the heat from Cisco.
The new hardware and software help cement Cisco's position as the premier provider of end-to-end data centre infrastructure equipment, says Omar Sultan, senior manager for Cisco's data centre architecture, states CRN.
“We're in a different position when compared to our competitors,” Sultan says. “We have a full product portfolio with a broad vision and the ability to execute against that vision.”
According to eWeek, Cisco also revealed that it is now offering end-to-end 'fabric-type' connectivity from server to storage with new director-class, 'multihop' fibre channel over Ethernet in its larger-scale Nexus 7000 and MDS 9500 storage-area network switches.
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