Enterprise storage networking infrastructures are evolving rapidly in order to meet three main business requirements:
- Reduce CapEx/OpEx
- Increase agility to support changing business priorities, application requirements and revenue growth
- Improve SAN extension infrastructures for long distance replication, backup and recovery to meet regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
A4 Networks is uniquely positioned to provide IT managers with an enterprise-wide approach to deploying scalable, highly available and more easily administered storage networking infrastructures that can meet all these requirements.
As an integral part of attaining a Business Ready Data Center, A4 Networks using Cisco's intelligent storage networking solutions provide a better way of accessing, managing, and protecting growing information resources across a consolidated Fibre Channel, FCIP, iSCSI, Gigabit Ethernet, and/or optical network infrastructure. Our Multilayer Datacenter Switch (MDS) SAN switch family can lower the cost of storage networking and accelerate migration from discrete SAN islands to interconnected SANs by driving multiple layers of intelligence into the storage network. These layers of intelligence specifically help end-users to attain optimal solutions for SAN end-user objectives.