Cisco Cisco MDS 9000 14 2-Port Multiprotocol Services Module White Paper
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buyers, proving that the technology works and is supported by a broad ecosystem of vendors and by the
experience of multiple reference customers are important factors for further adoption.
experience of multiple reference customers are important factors for further adoption.
72%
71%
63%
44%
0%
Reduced acquisition cost of switching
hardware and/or sof tware
Management cost reduction f rom
synergies through common
management of storage and LAN
network
Reduced power, cooling, and data
center costs
Management cost reduction f rom
increased simplicity of Ethernet SAN
compared with traditional Fibre Channel
Other, please specif y
“What types of benefits do you think are likely to result from convergence of storage and LAN networks at the server
access
layer?”