Fibre Channel is the Bedrock of Modern AI Storage Presented by Cisco MDS

The modern AI data center is the height of technology, and it requires a massive amount of power and cooling to operate properly.

But the most important thing that it requires is data.

How can we deliver that data to these hungry compute clusters? In this episode of the Tech Field Day podcast, Fibre Channel is the bedrock of modern data center storage.

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On this episode, presented by Cisco Data Center Networking, we're going to be discussing the rise of storage and AI and the importance of what it's built on.

But before we get to that, I'd like to introduce our guests for this episode, starting with Steven.

Thanks, Tom.

It's good to be here.

Uh, I'm Steven Foskett, organizer of the Tech Field Day events, and also, um, as Tom would call me, Mr.

Storage.

I've been focused on enterprise storage and storage networking basically my whole career.

Um, and so I jumped at the chance to have a conversation with Judd about, uh, the Cisco MDS line because I, uh, been here and watched it, uh, grow the entire time since it was launched, so it's really great to be here.

And it's always great to have you on, Steven.

And as he mentioned, I'd like to introduce our special guest from Cisco.

Judd, tell everybody who you are.

Hey, everybody.

Much like Steven, I have a, a, a love for storage.

I'm Judd Pickett.

I'm a hyperspecialist for MDS, covering, uh, worldwide for Cisco.

All right.

And of course, my name is Tom Hollingsworth.

I'm the event lead here at Tech Field Day for all things related to networking.

Let's jump into today's episode.