Getting Down To Business
It wasn't all pina coladas and mai tais at Cisco Partner Summit (though to be sure there were plenty of both). Edison Peres, Cisco's vice president of worldwide channels, said the market for Cisco's data center technology and related partner services is expected to hit $14 billion within the next five years.
To help partners grab their share of the pie, Cisco at the conference launched the Nexus 5000 Series data center switch, targeted at the access layer where it can connect and aggregate existing LANs and SANs. It aims to provide line-rate 10-Gigabit Ethernet switching as well as input/output consolidation with support for Fibre Channel over Ethernet, Data Center Ethernet and virtualization technologies.
