Tech Perspective: Cisco and Brocade

According to Gartner, network administrators have been concerned about making major investments in Cisco products due to the company's general silence on the subject of SANs. But a recent partnership between Cisco and Brocade to develop a Fibre Channel interface for Cisco's Catalyst 6000 family of switches to transport SAN traffic over IP-based networks could help. Do you trust Cisco as a "networking partner"? How do you feel now that Cisco is beginning to address SANs? What do you think of Cisco?s partnership with Brocade and its plans to push iSCSI? How do you think storage should be interconnected between and within enterprises? You can read the related Gartner article, which will be posted 3 A.M. Monday, at https://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220001127ggp01.htm.