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,…