Article: Columbus Regional Hospital Builds Multiprotocol SAN With Cisco MDS 9509; iSCSI Will Help Hospital to Network Three Times as Many Servers Than With Fibre Channel Alone.

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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2004

Columbus Regional Hospital (CRH), a regional referral hospital serving multiple counties in southeastern Indiana, expects to more than tripled the numbers of servers networked onto to its storage area network (SAN) using the multiprotocol and virtual SAN (VSAN) capabilities available in Cisco (Nasdaq:CSCO) MDS 9509 Multilayer Intelligent Director than the hospital had originally planned for by using legacy, Fibre Channel-only switches.

By networking more servers onto the SAN, CRH's IT department will improve operational efficiency and lower costs by increasing ...

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