Looking to support ever-increasing workloads, Cisco has pumped up the speed and intelligence of its storage area networking family. The company addressed the need for increased speed by saying it ...

Modern data centers face a formidable challenge in managing escalating power demands. The sheer volume of servers, networking equipment, and storage arrays requires a substantial energy supply, ...

Director SAN switch gets top ratings in management and feature columns. Cisco’s done it again. Packed with 112 ports of 2G bit/sec Fibre Channel, the latest version of Cisco’s MDS 9509 delivers a ...

Continuing its push into the storage market, networking giant Cisco unveiled upgraded software for storage switches that promises to improve information sharing and prioritize data traffic. Cisco on ...

Cisco’s newly launched MDS 9710 Multilayer Director has been certified for use in networking environments that leverage QLogic’s 2600 and 8300 Series FlexSuite adapters. The MDS 9710 is the successor ...

Cisco has released a 16-port line card that combines four services for the MDS 9000 family of Fibre Channel storage switches. The Storage Services Node-16 (SSN-16) card will move more data-storage ...

Cisco Systems Inc. plans to roll out a low-end Fibre Channel switch this week that supports some features of its larger director-level switches, such as virtual storage-area network capability. The ...

My google-fu is failing me here, hoping the hivemind can shed some light on a question I have. I've got two Cisco 9148 FC switches that are connected with an ISL. The ISL has two links between ...