Looking to support ever-increasing workloads, Cisco has pumped up the speed and intelligence of its storage area networking family. The company addressed the need for increased speed by saying it ...

Director SAN switch gets top ratings in management and feature columns. Cisco’s done it again. Packed with 112 ports of 2G bit/sec Fibre Channel, the latest version of Cisco’s MDS 9509 delivers a ...

Cisco has added to its MDS 9000 storage switch portfolio, launching two products that combine Fibre Channel (FC) protocol for the enterprise with a cheaper connectivity option. The MDS line comprises ...

Modern data centers face a formidable challenge in managing escalating power demands. The sheer volume of servers, networking equipment, and storage arrays requires a substantial energy supply, ...

Data is piling up, and storage keeps getting faster thanks to flash, so the networks that link it all together need to keep up, too. Both traditional Fibre Channel and more general-use protocols used ...

My google-fu is failing me here, hoping the hivemind can shed some light on a question I have. I've got two Cisco 9148 FC switches that are connected with an ISL. The ISL has two links between ...

When I need to look at a particular zone but I only know part of the zone name, I do this, which matches any line in the zone list containing '[string]' (regardless of upper/lower case) and then ...

Submitted by Cisco Systems, Inc. In the fast-paced evolution of data centers, the spotlight on sustainability has never been brighter. As energy demands surge, finding innovative ways to reduce energy ...