From the outset, Cisco Unified Fabric has been ahead of the curve and ahead of the market in its innovation and the value that it brings to Cisco customers. Its introduction brought about a profound shift to data center fabric: unification of the IP and storage networks.  Today it is foundational -a primary building block for cloud-based, virtualized data centers, providing architectural flexibility and consistent networking across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.

Customers know this too, as evidenced by Cisco's continuous leadership in this market maintaining the#1 market share for Data Center Ethernet Switching with over 70% of the market*, and#1 in FCoE SAN Switching with 77% of the market**.

Continuing to innovate ...
During Cisco Live Orlando last week, Cisco unveiled a two additions to its Unified Fabric portfolio: Dynamic Fabric Automation, which automates network provisioning and simplifies fabric management, and new Nexus 7700 Series switches, providing 40G/100G scalability and comprehensive feature set with new F3 modules.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXEGqTTuLms

Cisco also announced the vision for our revolutionary networking architecture with Application Centric Infrastructure.  Yet again, we are evolving our infrastructure to help IT departments dramatically simplify how they provision their data center resources (networking, servers, storage and services) that are critical to the performance of their applications. As we heard from Padmasree Warrior, "the Application Centric Infrastructure will give our customers the agility to deliver applications to end-users where they want, when they want, and to any device they want  -securely, rapidly, and at a lower cost."

We continue to innovate as no other IT company does, providing the vision and technology to transform the data center. Tomorrow starts here.

*Source: Infonetics, Q1CY2013 DC Network Equipment Report  **Source: Dell'Oro, SAN Switching, Q2CY2013