Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in networking, transforming how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco's networking solutions are the foundation of these networks.

Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of networking technologies. Today this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as IP communications, wireless LAN, storage area networking, home networking, network security, video systems, and application networking systems.

EMC and Cisco: connecting people and information

Together, EMC and Cisco can help you build an efficient, secure, and agile infrastructure to connect people and information. Cisco and EMC products and solutions provide a framework to accelerate business innovation. Together, Cisco and EMC help increase effectiveness by assuring secure access to information across the infrastructure while streamlining operations and reducing risk by simplifying the management of information. These infrastructures enable organizations to increase effectiveness by supporting the creation, storage, and movement of increasing volumes of information of many types.

Solutions, best practices, and interoperability and testing

For years, EMC and Cisco have worked together to bring to market a variety of solutions, including:

• Storage connectivity — The combination of EMC storage technologies and the Cisco MDS family of SAN directors and switches helps you safely manage information throughout the infrastructure. With options that enable high-speed Fibre Channel connectivity and intelligent IP storage networking, EMC and Cisco offer the flexibility you need to get the most out of your IT investments.
• Virtualization — Virtualization of the block storage environment with EMC Invista and Cisco MDS SSM can help you to reduce the cost and risk associated with large-scale movement of information in the infrastructure. Virtualization enables the more efficient management of heterogeneous storage resources, dramatically reduces downtime, and makes data protection and copy services more flexible and cost-effective.
• Information security — RSA, the Security Division of EMC, and Cisco have announced a collaborative effort to develop technology that will help you improve and simplify the encryption of confidential information. Together, these technologies help you encrypt data-at-rest on tapes and other types of storage media and manage the associated encryption keys within the storage area network infrastructure.
• Business continuity — The combination of Cisco’s SANTap and EMC’s RecoverPoint products enables you to build state-of-the art business continuity solutions. Cisco SANTap intelligent fabric technology in combination with EMC RecoverPoint’s continuous remote replication and continuous data protection capabilities facilitate the deployment of network-based replication for advanced recovery.

Industry-leading customer service

Joint customers of Cisco and EMC are assured the same industry-leading level of service and support they have come to expect from both companies, thanks to Cisco's joint customer support agreement with EMC.