Switching to a Unified Fabric provides customers with two key benefits. Firstly, it delivers high performance to support the increasing demands made on virtualized servers, and secondly, it paves the way for a common network for servers and storage, allowing for more flexible data centre architectures. Furthermore, by implementing a Unified Fabric, data centre operators can expect significant savings in administration, power consumption and space, equipment and cabling. Existing investment in Fibre Channel infrastructures is protected, since these can be incorporated into a Unified Fabric.

"There are huge gains to be made in virtualizing end-to-end data centre infrastructures by implementing a Unified Fabric", commented Helmut Beck, Vice President Storage Business at Fujitsu Siemens Computers. "Thanks to our close partnership with Cisco and the tight integration of our product lines, we are making it easier for our customers to build these architectures. Adding the new Nexus series to our offering strengthens Fujitsu Siemens Computers' position as a major infrastructure vendor that is able to deliver products and services capable of meeting all the challenges presented by complex data centres."