Next Generation Data Center Design With MDS 9700 – Part III

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This week is exciting, had opportunity to sit on round table with Cisco’s largest customers on an open ended architecture discussion and their take on past, present and future. More on that some other time let’s pick up last critical aspect of High Performance Data Center design namely...

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Next Generation Data Center Design With MDS 9710 – Part II

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EMC World was wonderful. It was gratifying to meet industry professionals,  listen in on great presentations and watch the demos for key business enabling technologies that Cisco, EMC and others have brought to fruition.  Its fascinating to see the transition of DC from cost center to a strategic...

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Next Generation Data Center Design With MDS 9710 – Part I

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Data centers are undergoing a major transition to meet higher performance, scalability, and resiliency requirements with fewer resources, smaller footprint, and simplified designs. These rigorous requirements coupled with major data center trends, such as virtualization, data center consolidation and data growth, are putting a tremendous amount of strain...

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MDS 9700 Scale Out and Scale Up

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This is the final part on the High Performance Data Center Design. We will look at how high performance, high availability and flexibility allows customers to scale up or scale out over time without any disruption to the existing infrastructure. MDS 9710 capabilities are field proved with the...

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Cisco & MapR set a Software Defined Storage World Record

66 years in the making! It sounds like a long time, but first we had to wait for a few milestones to precede us: ◈ 1951 – UNIVAC pioneers use of magnetic tape for storage ◈ 1993 – Severe Tire Damage is the first band to live stream...

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