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  Today’s Storage Area Networks (SAN) need to evolve to 64G Fibre Channel to support the increasing application workloads and performance requirements.  So the question is “should you upgrade your Cisco MDS 9700 Series to 64G Fibre Channel?”  To help answer this question, let’s review the unique and innovative capabilities of Cisco’s MDS 64G Fibre Channel:   Key Cisco MDS 64G Fibre Channel (FC) Innovation Double the data rate The new Cisco MDS 64G FC…

Co-author: Mike Dilio, Sr. Product Marketing Manager These days, data could be stored anywhere, in any environment. It’s spread across on-premises and offsite locations, public and private clouds, pure and hybrid installations. Networks have gotten more complex, and management is more siloed. At the same time, IT organizations are expected to maintain everything flawlessly, delivering high availability across globally distributed infrastructure with disparate toolsets. This is the challenge of Hybrid Cloud Networks. Early adopters have charged ahead with cloud data centers, enthusiastic about taking advantage of their flexibility. Most enterprises…

IBM announced the general availability of the industry’s first magnetic tapes and drives based on the LTO-9 Ultrium specification for massive data capacity and resilience. The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) 9 spec features a 50% improvement in capacity over LTO-8, which translates to 18TB native capacity, or 45TB after data is compressed. Fujifilm and Sony announced media last month, but IBM is the first with a drive. Previous LTO specs have featured 100% jumps in capacity,…

I recently wrote about the 100G ER-Lite, the latest addition to our single-lambda 100G QSFP28 pluggable optics products. It provides a whopping 25km of reach over duplex SMF (single-mode fiber). While the LR1-20 specification standardized by the 100G Lambda MSA supports 20km reach, Cisco’s product will actually support 25km. Of course, when paired with another vendor’s MSA-compliant module, it still supports the 20km since it complies with (and exceeds) the MSA specifications. Why does Cisco’s…

 In this blog I am going to ask you the reader two questions:   How important is digital-first engagement to your customers?  How many digital platform login or access failures will you accept prior to moving to a new institution?  How Important is digital-first engagement to your customers?  The ability for a customer of a financial institution to be able to engage digitally and simply has never been more important than it is today. The rapid expectation to manage your finances digitally…

While the unprecedented global pandemic has paused our lives for more than a year and a half now, it has not slowed the massive digitization of data, often referred to as digital transformation, that is now a primary challenge as businesses evolve their digital strategies. Digitization of the enterprise, and the resulting digital services, are rapidly increasing requirements for larger technology stacks to store, compute, analyze and connect the data. Supporting this is the Valuates…

Beep Beeeeep Beep…. Oh no! It’s 4:48 a.m. and I overslept; I needed to be up by 4:30 a.m. to catch my connecting flight to London Heathrow. This is going to be close. I check my phone and can see my Lyft is only five minutes away. Hopefully I get a fast driver.   During the frantic drive to the airport, I check in online but I still have to check a bag when I get…

In today’s cloud-first world, the WAN and network security are more intertwined than ever before. To realize the full promise of digital transformation, work from anywhere, and the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) model, enterprises must transform both their WAN and security architectures to support business applications hosted and accessed from anywhere, by anyone authorized to access them, and from any device. Zero Trust: Securing the Edge by Application, User/Device Identity, and Role-Based Context With…

Cisco is proud to be the only vendor recognized by Frost & Sullivan with the Best Practices Market Leadership Award for excellence in the network firewall market. This award recognizes that Cisco achieved the greatest market share in the global firewall market due to outstanding performance, products, and service. We’re honored to receive industry recognition for making security less complex, more agile, and better able to defend against today’s and tomorrow’s threats. In recent years,…

Mother Nature throws twists into food growing and production. Even slight changes in temperature, light, and humidity can affect taste or lead to spoilage. California’s grape growers, for instance, are having to adapt to a water shortage. Too much watering is not sustainable—and often not good for fruit quality. Too little, and vines don’t produce or wither away. Food distribution is also ultra-sensitive to environmental conditions. An unnoticed change in the temperature or humidity of…