Switching White Papers
New Process Steel Gains Reliability and Easy Manageability With Cisco and EMC-Based Storage Area Network
Overview New Process Steel (NPS) is a world leader in flat-rolled steel distribution, processing, and manufacturing. Due to growth of online business internally and with customers escalates storage needs. NPS needed to keep greater reliance on electronic data heightens availability concerns. NPS installed the Cisco MDS 9216 Multilayer Fabric Switch and EMC Clarion CX400. If servers fail, online spare servers are operational within minutes, rather than days. EMC had a working relationship with an existing storage area network (SAN) switch vendor, and NPS installed the vendor's Fibre Channel Director.
| Publisher | Cisco Systems | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | February 2005 | ||
| Format | Case Studies | ||
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