Cisco Delivers End-to-End Data Center LAN/SAN Convergence

Eric Murray, Senior Network Engineer at Kindred Healthcare and Ashish Shah Senior Product Manager, Data Center Switching Technology Group at Cisco Systems discuss the value gain of data center convergence or a single Ethernet fabric to support IP datagram and storage traffic.  In this podcast Eric Murray shares his experience of deploying a converged data center while Ashish explains Cisco’s end-to-end Data Center LAN/SAN consolidation strategy.  This is a fascinating discussion of data center network design with cost and benefit trade-offs.  In short, Kindred Healthcare has saved many millions of dollars in capital spend plus operational cost thanks to a reduction in the number of management points.