Many businesses with constrained budgets and resources are challenged with managing the exponential growth of information.

Networking your data storage environment is a key strategy for effectively managing data. Cisco has partnered with EMC to deliver an integrated, networked storage system focused on archiving, backup and recovery, and consolidation solutions for businesses of all sizes.

Benefits of Cisco/EMC networked storage solutions:

• Reduce costs through storage and server consolidation
• Provide an environment that streamlines backup and enables secure business-continuity solutions
• Easily manage your IT infrastructure based on the changing value of information

Now, you can also optimize your data storage environment with Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Software. An integrated Cisco/EMC WAAS solution enables you to consolidate distributed servers and storage into a centrally managed data center while maintaining LAN-like performance for remote users. Cisco WAAS also provides powerful application acceleration and WAN optimization, improving overall performance.

Benefits of Cisco/EMC WAAS:

• Confidently deploy centralized applications
• Consolidate costly branch office servers and storage into data centers
• Offer LAN-like performance to remote users
• Reduce cost of WAN bandwidth while improving performance

Through the Cisco/EMC relationship, you can now take advantage of optimized integrated data storage networking solutions developed by industry leaders. With Cisco WAAS now included in EMC's Select program, businesses have one source for their storage networking needs.

For more information about the Cisco WAAS solution visit http://www.cisco.com/go/waas.