NetApp to Resell 16Gb Cisco MDS 9710 Director
As part of storage solution
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on June 5, 2013 at 3:08 pm
NetApp, Inc. announced that it has
certified and will be reselling the Cisco
MDS 9710 Multilayer Director as part of its storage solution.
NetApp offers storage and data management solutions which when combined with
the Cisco storage networking solutions, allow customers to have a scalable,
reliable, and efficient unified storage platform that supports all major
storage protocols, makes IT more efficient, and accelerates business.
16-gigabit Cisco MDS 9710 Multilayer Director delivers 24TB/sec of
total switching capacity, three times the bandwidth of any other storage
director in the industry, reliability with a fault-tolerant architectural
design and redundant components, and flexibility and
investment protection.
As a Cisco original storage manufacturer (OSM) collaborator, NetApp works with
customers to deploy storage and unified data center solutions across their
enterprises.
"NetApp and Cisco share a common vision for
the future of the data center and remain committed to constant innovation to
our joint portfolio that helps address the business needs of our mutual
customers," said Brendon Howe, VP, product and solutions
marketing, NetApp. "We are
excited to further enhance our strategic technology partnership with Cisco and
continue to help customers gain a competitive advantage and transform business
operations with cost-effective and efficient storage and data management
solutions."
"Cisco and NetApp
are pleased to continue our collaborative efforts for Cisco’s MDS
next-generation SAN solutions. Together, we provide customers a seamless
network and storage solution for ease of deployment and turnkey operations for
customers," said Rajeev Bhardwaj, VP, product management,
Cisco data center group. "We
continue to transform data centers with greater scale, reliability and
flexibility while addressing virtual, cloud, big data market needs."
Cisco
and NetApp align the sales and delivery models so that customers can work with
one storage vendor to get a storage and SAN solution.
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