University of Minnesota selects Cisco SAN for scalability, reliability.(CONTRACTS)

SAN/LAN, April, 2006

Cisco announced that the University of Minnesota, which serves 60,000 students on five campuses, has selected Cisco MDS 9509 Multilayer directors to consolidate its widely dispersed storage resources onto a single, highly reliable, high-performance storage area network.

"It's a typical story for university environments," said Carl Follstad, manager of Data Management Services at the university. "We had a lot of little islands of storage, perfectly reliable, but not scalable. There were also requirements for information-sharing between systems that couldn't be met because they were not connected. The next natural step was to consolidate storage onto a SAN."

Headquartered in the Twin Cities, Minnesota--with five campuses and additional research...

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