VCS Fabric technology, which provides advanced Ethernet fabric capabilities, enables you to transition gracefully to elastic, highly automated, cloud-optimized networks.
Industry discussions of server virtualization, SDN, and cloud computing
abound, for one simple reason: agility. Every year, CIOs are asked to support
more—often much more, in terms of data and traffic—with less, and more
quickly. In addition, a number of regulations have arisen in the last decade,
forcing a stronger focus on data security and control. These business
realities, along with improvements in WAN/LAN performance, have
contributed to a retrenchment of IT operations and investments back into
the data center.
VCS® Fabric technology is designed to meet these challenges by enabling
next-generation virtual data center and private cloud computing initiatives.
VCS fabrics, delivered on VDX® switches, were designed specifically to meet
the needs of cloud environments and scale-out data center architectures
being driven by an explosion of information, the heightened importance
of data, and new application architectures. VCS fabrics provide the
highest levels of network automation, efficiency, resilience, and investment
protection. This paper reviews key data center network challenges and how
VCS Fabric technology addresses them.
