Storage Area Networks Evolve

Storage area networks in enterprise infrastructures are evolving rapidly to meet three primary business requirements:

• Reduce capital and operating expenses
• Increase agility to support changing business priorities, application requirements, and revenue growth
• Improve long-distance replication, backup, and recovery to meet regulatory requirements and industry best practices

Cisco can help IT managers meet these requirements with an enterprisewide approach to deploying scalable, highly available, and more easily administered storage area networks.

Cisco solutions for intelligent storage area networks are an integral part of an enterprise data center architecture and provide a better way to access, manage, and protect growing information resources across a consolidated Fibre Channel, FCIP, iSCSI, Gigabit Ethernet, and optical network.