Today Cisco announced its new SAN extension using Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP). This new SAN extension will help companies that need to scale over geographically dispersed datacenters, especially in the case where optical networks are cost prohibitive. Cisco states that its new SAN extension will help bring simplified data protection and business continuance strategies to organizations.
Downtime can be expensive as one major airline recently discovered. Or, in the case of smaller businesses, downtime and be disastrous, potentially ending the business altogether. One way to ensure a safe disaster recovery location is geographical displacement; having the two data centers far enough apart one disaster couldn’t wipe them both out. The main problem with this is latency. Enter Cisco's new SAN extension using FCIP.
The SAN extension is designed to bring long distance, high-speed backup and disaster recovery over IP networks. This integrated modular solution is made for both high-scale and high-availability. And since it is backward compatible with fifth generation FCIP solutions, companies can already leverage the investments they have. Since the extension supports higher performance storage connectivity (10/25/40/50/100G) companies will be able to replicate and backup large amounts of data.
Cisco is also announcing a few other new products today including:
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