Five Reasons Why You Should Choose Cisco MDS 9000 Family
Data is growing at an astonishing rate. Trends such as cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), flash storage and digitization are imposing higher demands on the technologies used to manage, transport, back up, and restore data. With increased business dependence on IT, downtime has a
more significant and tangible impact on business operations. Organizations almost universally are increasing their focus on disaster recovery and business continuance as well as on the ability to scale and manage data efficiently.
- Integrated Analytics for Deep Visibility: Cisco MDS 9700 offers industry’s first and only switch integrated, native, line rate storage traffic analytics.
- Performance and Scalability: The amount of data is growing at a dramatically increasing rate, and this trend is expected to continue for the foreseeable future. To support this massive increase in data, data center storage networks need to be highly scalable.
- Exceptional Reliability, Availability, and Flexibility: MDS 9700 Series directors offer redundancy for all major components, with 1+1 redundant supervisors, N:N grid- redundant power supplies, and N+1 redundant backplane fabric modules.
- Operational Simplicity: The Cisco MDS 9000 Family promotes operational simplicity by bringing programmability, analytics, manageability, and visibility to the SAN.
- Investment Protection: Cisco MDS 9500 family was introduced in 2002 and still deployed in many data centers throughout the world, having seen multiple speed upgrades from 2 to 4 to 8 to 10 Gbps Fibre Channels without any downtime.
