Major announcement by CISCO of the new Unified Fabric for Datacenter : The NEXUS platforms.

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Data Center 3.0: Enhancing Business Resilience and Agility

The network is the optimum place for new capabilities that connect applications, servers, and storage together. Cisco helps you:

* Extend the lifecycle of critical data center facilities and assets
* Provide a safe and secure architecture for the data center
* Be more responsive to business needs

Serving as the network platform for the next-generation data center, the new Cisco Nexus Family, is the flagship of a new generation of purpose-built data center switching platforms. The Nexus Family is designed to unify multiple data center networks providing a more efficient, resilient, and lasting infrastructure for enterprise and service provider operations.

For a discussion of networking-based technologies designed to optimize data centers, see Cisco's Data Center Networks Blog.