DALLAS, TX--(Marketwire - October 14, 2008) - STORAGE NETWORKING WORLD -- Expanding its
Data Center 3.0 solution set, Cisco (
NASDAQ:
CSCO)
today announced
application delivery network capabilities for disaster recovery,
security and regulatory compliance that accelerate data center traffic
replication over wide-area networks. The company also detailed Data Center
3.0-related activities scheduled for Storage Networking World in Dallas,
Oct. 13-16. Comprising the broadest set of data center networking solutions
in the industry, the Cisco® Data Center 3.0 architecture provides a
framework for reliable, highly secure, responsive and green data centers.
Cisco WAAS (Wide-Area Application Services) helps reduce
bandwidth requirements, data replication times, time to recovery, and data
loss, while increasing acceptable distance between data centers and aiding
regulatory compliance. A new version of Cisco WAAS software now offers a
Replication Accelerator mode that optimizes data center replication
capabilities for popular storage applications. The added capabilities will
help information technology (IT) managers overcome wide-area network
bandwidth limitations when remotely replicating data over Internet Protocol
(IP) networks between data centers, improving disaster recovery and
business continuance. The Cisco WAAS Replication Accelerator mode has been
tested and validated for use with
EMC SRDF and
NetApp SnapMirror applications, and is
supported on the Cisco Wide Area Application Engine WAE-7341 and WAE-7371
appliances.
WAAS Replication Accelerator provides data encryption for data at rest and
future support for data in motion, as well as protecting data by providing
more assured data backups. In addition, recently announced
8-Gbps Fibre
Channel modules, as well
Cisco TrustSec
Fibre Channel (CTS-FC) and
Storage Media
Encryption (SME), provide data-protection capabilities for Cisco's
family of storage area network (SAN) solutions. Together, these
technologies extend data protection across the Cisco Data Center 3.0
portfolio. Cisco's data center technology innovations contributed to
Cisco's being honored recently with the SearchStorage New Technology Award
for the Cisco NX-OS SAN operating system, WAAS, and the Cisco Nexus®
1000V distributed virtual software switch.
Michael Baker Corp., based in Moon Township, Pa, provides professional
services for engineering, operations, and maintenance services worldwide.
The company has deployed Cisco WAAS and SAN technology, including Cisco MDS
9200 Series Multilayer Fabric Switches, for multiple data centers. Michael
Baker selected Cisco Data Center solutions to centralize IT operations for
better utilization, with the goal of reducing costs and enabling the
enterprise to use offices and employees more effectively.
Michael Baker estimates that since the upgrade to WAAS, the company has
been able to reduce costs through more efficient collaboration, estimating
savings of over $1 million on one project and more than 260 percent ROI
over 18 months. The Cisco SAN technology enables the company to link its
data centers, provides expandability options for VMware hosts, and allows
expandable disaster-recovery capabilities for data replication and business
continuity.
"The new Cisco WAAS Replication Accelerator mode will allow us to transfer
more data between data centers in a shorter period of time, maximizing the
use of WAN connections and eliminating the transfer of redundant data
across the link for greater business continuity," said Jeremy Gill, vice
president of information technology for Michael Baker. "Cisco WAAS is
complementary with the Cisco MDS portfolio, taking FCIP-based replication
traffic from the MDS and optimizing the traffic to reduce backup time,
typically from more than eight hours to less than one hour. The end-to-end
Cisco 3.0 data center solution also provides greater manageability and ease
of use for the IT staff."
Cisco at Storage Networking World
Cisco Presentations
-- Monday, Oct. 13 at 1:55 p.m. "Ethernet Enhancements for Storage:
Deploying FCoE, " Errol Roberts, distinguished systems engineer
-- Monday, Oct. 13 at 3.45 p.m. "Green SANs - How SANs Reduce Overall
Power Requirements in the Data Center," Nitin Garg, product manager
Cisco Product Demonstrations
-- FCIA Booth, #507: Cisco to demonstrate Fibre-Channel over Ethernet
(FcoE) solutions and Cisco MDS 8G FC solutions.
-- Qlogic Booth #406: Qlogic will demonstrate support for Cisco's
industry-standard virtual SANs (VSANs) in its HBAs and SANSurfer management
software.
Hands-On FCoE Lab
-- IT managers will have the opportunity to test FCoE using servers,
Cisco Nexus 5020s, Cisco MDS switches and Cisco partner products.
Cisco Press and Analyst Events
Cisco will host a press luncheon Wednesday, Oct. 15. Contact Lee Davis at
leedavis@cisco.com for more information. Industry analysts should contact
Amal Nichols at
amnichols@cisco.com.
Find More Information Online:
Web Site Links:
For more information on Cisco Storage Networking Solutions:
http://www.cisco.com/go/storage
For more information on Cisco Application Delivery Network Solutions:
http://www.cisco.com/go/ans
For more information on Cisco Data Center 3.0:
http://www.cisco.com/go/datacenter
Cisco Data Center Blog:
http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/
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