New network storage solutions from Cisco

The new Cisco MDS network storage solutions help meet growing storage needs with better performance, easy scalability, and greater reliability. Cisco's recently announced new storage area network (SAN) solutions offer higher performance than competing systems, while being easier to deploy and more reliable. One of the new devices, the Cisco MDS 9710 Multilayer Director, has three times the bandwidth of any storage manager in the industry today. Cisco also introduced the Cisco MDS 9250i Multiservice Fabric Switch, which provides more efficient system performance by providing key storage networking services on the SAN.

Because of cloud computing, large amounts of data, and the growing number of devices connected to the Internet, organizations and users need to manage and store a rapidly growing amount of data. IT departments need increasingly efficient data storage systems to keep up with these trends.

IDC estimates in 2012 that data storage needs will grow by a total of 61,4 percent year-over-year by 2015. With the expansion of storage systems, there is also an increasing need for these systems to be better integrated with other key data center infrastructures, such as network and processing systems. Cisco implements this tight integration with the Unified Data Center strategy.

Cisco storage switching devices are an essential part of the industry's most advanced and comprehensive end-to-end data center network portfolio, which includes storage controllers, switching devices, servers, central management solutions, and the company's common operating system, NX-OS. This versatile portfolio can prove useful in a myriad of sectors, including more efficient decision-making. [cisco]