Cisco Scales Up Its Data Center Fabric At Industry Setting Levels

Podcast Episode Summary

IT business leaders are seeking data center fabrics that scale to support increasing density of physical and virtual servers at cloud spec.  In October of this year, Cisco delivered a monster data center fabric announcement aimed at increasing scale, security and new data center services.  A few highlights are the second-generation Nexus 7000 capabilities, a new Nexus 7009 platform, plus FabricPath capabilities on the Nexus 5500 and expanded Nexus 1GbE and 40GbE form factors of the Nexus 3000.  Shashi Kiran, Director of Market Management for Data Center/Virtualization and Enterprise Switching at Cisco Systems joins me to talk about what IT business leaders will gain from this new announcement from a business outcome and data center fabric design perspective.