Networking Storage
DSS, through our Silver partnership with
Cisco offer the following solutions around the deployment of storage networking solutions based on open architectures and industry standards:
Storage Consolidation for Data Centers
Escalating storage requirements, rising management costs, and sharing information is driving the consolidation of storage resources. Efficiently pooling and scaling storage resources can reduce underutilization of disk space and rising management costs.
Efficient utilization of storage resources
Multiple system access to multiple storage devices, regardless of location. Consolidation of multiple low-end storage systems into centralized, high-performance systems.
- Increases in storage capacity without increasing administration resources
- Dramatically reduced total cost of ownership
The Cisco MDS 9500 Series of Multilayer Directors and the Cisco MDS 9216 Multilayer Fabric Switches enable storage professionals to achieve storage consolidation by providing highly scalable intelligent Storage Area Networking (SAN) platforms that incorporate intelligent services providing:
- Multiprotocol capability including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and FCIP
- Embedded multiprotocol fabric management
- Embedded advanced fabric troubleshooting and diagnostic tools
- Secure SAN deployments including role-based management and extensive fabric security services
- Storage Consolidation for Small/Medium Enterprises and Departmental Servers
- Many companies have not yet taken advantage of the benefits associated with consolidating storage due to the initial start up investment required and perceived complexities associated with deploying SANs.
With Cisco's entry-level SAN solutions, IT professionals can now enjoy the following benefits:
- Deploy SANs with a low initial investment in capital and manpower resources.
- Reduce cost of ownership with increased storage resource efficiency.
- Achieve consistent and trouble-free LAN-free backup.
- Share Fiber Channel connected disks and tape over an existing IP/Ethernet network infrastructure.
- Reduce management and infrastructure costs while improving availability and data protection.
- The Cisco SN 5400 Series of Storage Routers allows customers to benefit from the cost and functionality associated with a combined Fiber Channel and iSCSI SAN infrastructure.
Business Continuance
Replicating and mirroring data between data centers and storage systems is critical for ensuring that applications and data can be quickly recovered in the event of a serious disruption in the production data center. Depending on the business needs, locations of data centers and the downtime and data loss that can be accepted IT organizations can achieve this replication over campus, metro or Wide area networks.
Storage Networking over Metro Optical
Optical infrastructure to extend storage networks across metropolitan area networks for business continuance and storage consolidation based on optical DWDM, SONET, and metro IP technologies.
Benefits include:
- Reduce risk of data loss and downtime
- High performance, low latency storage transport
- Cost effective consolidation of SAN, NAS, and storage management resources
- Storage Networking over WAN
- Fast, secure, and highly available storage network interconnect over wide-area networks based on FCIP and iSCSI standard protocols
- Remote data replication for business continuance and data protection
- Distribution of data closer to end users for faster access
- Data center migration
- Global storage management