Monday, November 29, 2010

Cisco Borderless Network Architecture

As Cisco puts it – This is a next generation architecture that connects anyone, anywhere, on any device – securely, reliably and seamlessly.
There is a huge influx of consumer mobile devices in the business world. Cisco borderless network architecture helps IT evolve its infrastructure to deliver seamless, secure access to these mobile devices.
Traditionally, data and applications were housed on premises and the users also were generally on premises. In todays world the workforce is spread all across the globe and many workers are full time remote employees.  The applications also may be hosted off site or in the cloud.
Cisco’s Borderless Network architecture helps IT to unify its wired and wireless networks and securely deliver applications to users in a highly distributed environment.
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Borderless Networks at a glance

HP P4000G2 SAN – Affordable with Enterprise level features

HP P4000G2 SAN – Affordable with Enterprise level features
HP StorageWorks P4000 G2 SANs, representing a virtualized pool of storage resources, deliver enterprise SAN functionality that enhances virtual environments, simplifies management, and reduces costs. Easy to deploy, to increase and to maintain, HP P4000 G2 SANs ensure that critical business data remain available.
They are proven for virtual servers, client virtualization, database, email and business applications. P4000 G2 SANs scale capacity and performance linearly without incurring downtime or performance bottlenecks.
The P4000 SAN/iQ Software delivers following features that makes the P4000 an affordable SAN storage with Enterprise level features .
Storage clustering for disruption free growth
Network Raid stripes and protects multiple copies of data across a cluster of storage nodes.
Thin provisioning allocates space only, reducing actual capacity requirement.
Snapshots provide instant point in time copies of data.
Remote copy replicates snapshots between  P4000G2 SANs at primary/remote locations.
Online volume migration and automated software updates.
Self healing storage - Proactive disk/volume scrubbing with automatic bad block repair.
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