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WEBCAST - Watch this webcast for expert tips on securing your SAN environment and meeting government regulations. Learn about a technique that transparently encrypts data inside the storage environment without slowing or disrupting business critical applications.
Posted: November 14, 2008 | Premieres: December 3, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Encryption | Data Encryption Software | Network Security | Regulatory Compliance | SAN | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Security

WHITE PAPER - This document discusses the need for unified I/O and describes the phases of unified I/O along with FCoE deployment and the benefits of each phase.
Posted: November 4, 2008 | Published: November 4, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | Fibre Channel | Network Configuration Management | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | SAN | Vendors

PRODUCT LITERATURE - As discussed in this document, the Cisco® MDS 9000 Family provides the leading high-density, highbandwidth storage networking solution along with Integrated Fabric Applications to support dynamic data center requirements.
Posted: November 4, 2008 | Published: November 4, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Centers | Fibre Channel | Networking | SAN | Security | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Resource Management

BROCHURE - This white paper is an introduction to Cisco Storage Media Encryption (SME), a heterogeneous, standards-based encryption solution for data at rest with comprehensive built-in key-management features.
Posted: November 4, 2008 | Published: November 4, 2008


Topics:  Basel II | Data Security | Disaster Recovery | High Availability | HIPAA | Network Traffic Management

WHITE PAPER - This document describes the innovative approach introduced by the Cisco MDS 9000 Family to support an end-to-end virtualized SAN environment that is flexible, secure, scalable, and mobile.
Posted: October 24, 2008 | Published: October 24, 2008


Topics:  Cooling Capacity | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Operating Systems | QOS | SAN | Scalability Testing | Storage Virtualization | TCO

CASE STUDY - Read this case study to learn more about how Cineca uses Cisco HPC, blade switching, and SAN technologies to reduce increase ROI and reduce maintenance costs and demand on resources.
Posted: October 24, 2008 | Published: October 24, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Customer Service | Data Storage | Ethernet Networks | High Performance Computing | ROI | SAN | Switching

BROCHURE - HP and Cisco share a long history of collaborating to deliver successful data center solutions. This brochure provides an overview of Cisco's industry leadership in networking infrastructure with HP's world-class leadership in IT solutions.
Posted: October 24, 2008 | Published: October 24, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | Enterprise Systems | ERP | Network Infrastructure | SAN | Software

WHITE PAPER - This white paper, intended for enterprise IT groups, discusses the benefits of migrating to 4-Gbps Fiber Connection (FICON) and the advantages of the Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Director switch.
Posted: October 24, 2008 | Published: October 24, 2008


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Enterprise Systems | Fiber Optic Connectors | Storage Devices | Switches | WAN

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes the innovative approach introduced by the Cisco MDS 9000 Family to support an end-to-end virtualized SAN environment that is flexible, secure, scalable, and mobile.
Posted: October 24, 2008 | Published: October 24, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | Fibre Channel Switches | Network Infrastructure | QOS | SAN | Security | Server Virtualization | TCO

SOFTWARE DEMO - Watch this demo to learn how Cisco MDS 9000 Family 8-Gbps Fibre Channel Modules deliver intelligence and consistent, predictable high performance to support the most demanding storage applications.
Posted: October 24, 2008 | Published: October 24, 2008


Topics:  Cooling Capacity | Fibre Channel | Network Convergence | Network Management | SAN | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | TCO

CASE STUDY - Thomson Transaction Services products provide value-added information with software tools and applications that help its customers make better decisions, faster.
Posted: October 8, 2008 | Published: October 8, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | IT Infrastructure | SAN | Software | Storage Infrastructure

CASE STUDY - This case study describes Cisco IT's internal deployment of a storage area network (SAN) within the Cisco network, a leading-edge enterprise environment that is one of the largest and most complex in the world.
Posted: October 8, 2008 | Published: October 8, 2008


Topics:  Active Directory | Data Management | Electronic Discovery | ERP | LDAP | SAN

SOFTWARE DEMO - The Cisco MDS 9000 8-GB SAN Solutions reinforces the Cisco commitment to full and seamless product interoperability and consistency, as it protects the investment, lower your TCO and reinforces the vision and value.
Posted: October 8, 2008 | Published: October 8, 2008


Topics:  Interoperability | NAS | RAID | SAN | Storage Management | TCO

WHITE PAPER - 8GFC technology is priced at a significant premium over 4GFC and depending on the configuration, deployment of 8GFC may be up to 2X the cost of using 4GFC.
Posted: October 8, 2008 | Published: October 8, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | Fibre Channel | Hardware | SAN | Server Virtualization | Switching | VMware

WHITE PAPER - Virtualization in the data center is widely accepted and deployments are growing at a fast clip, the advantages of virtualizing servers, networks and storage are compelling: consolidating and utilizing resources.
Posted: October 8, 2008 | Published: October 8, 2008


Topics:  Network Management | Security | Server Virtualization | Storage Virtualization | Troubleshooting