Cisco Collaborates with HP to Deliver New Fibre Channel Embedded Switch for HP BladeSystem

Cisco Collaborates with HP to Deliver New Fibre Channel Embedded Switch for HP BladeSystem

Cisco® today announced that it is expanding its portfolio of award-winning storage networking switches and directors by developing a new embedded Fibre Channel fabric switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class. The new Cisco embedded switch will allow customers to deploy end-to-end Cisco intelligent SAN services, such as VSANs, advanced security, and high availability.

With this addition to its switch portfolio, Cisco is the only company to offer a full range of connectivity protocols for data center blade servers, uniquely providing customers with the choice of Ethernet, InfiniBand, and Fibre Channel to match their business and IT requirements. Customers benefit through common provisioning and management tools, simplified operations, and reduced operational costs.

“With the new Cisco embedded Fibre Channel fabric switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class, we will offer our customers end-to-end Cisco SAN solutions, helping customers cut costs and streamline SAN management,” said Mark Potter, vice president, BladeSystem Division, HP. “This new switch is designed for seamless compatibility between the new BladeSystem c-Class and current Cisco environments – a requirement that’s paramount for many of our joint customers.”

Many organizations are deploying bladed server architectures to simplify management and operations through standardization on a single platform for operation consistency, reduction in cabling and rack space, and integrated management. Blade server solutions help customers save in power, cooling, floor space, time, money, and resources. By offering a full range of protocols for embedded switches, Cisco helps enable seamless integration with the broader data center infrastructure and extends the benefits of multi-protocol intelligent network architectures to blade servers.

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