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Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) Chooses the Cisco Business Ready Data Centre Solution

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Overview Considered the world's oldest bank, Monte dei Paschi di Siena was set up by the State of Siena as Monte di Pieta in 1472, and has operated since then without interruption. The banking group Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) used Cisco's Business Ready Data Centre framework to create a network architecture, which helped reduce operational costs, improve flexibility and enhance business agility. MPS consolidated and interconnected storage resources at its two regional data centres in Italy using Cisco Systems integrated data center networking which enabled MPS to improve usability, availability and continuity of services.

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Publisher	Cisco Systems	File Format	HTML
Date Published	January 2005
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Storage Management, Network Design, Data Center

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