Urban Haas

@urbananimal

Urban Haas is an executive technology strategist at CDW. Having been in the industry since 1986, his career has included software development, data center management, system integration, consulting and sales solution development. For many years he ran his own company, Urban Technology, offering storage, supercomputer, UNIX server, network consulting and integration services. An outside-the-box thinker, Urban creates unique technology solutions to solve difficult business problems, taking advantage of data center convergence to reduce costs while taking resiliency and availability to the next level. He has a passion for engineering simple, right-sized solutions that keep capital expenses in line. Urban lives on a hobby farm outside of Minneapolis. He sings, plays guitar, rides horses, blogs, is involved with non-profit causes and travels around the globe.

Taking the wraps off of Cisco MDS 16 Gb FC Directors and Switches

By Urban Haas

May 6, 2013

Data Center

We’ve come a long way since the original Cisco MDS line debuted a decade ago. Cisco maintained strong upward and backward compatibility allowing upgrades to a director, replacing line cards and supervisors, taking us from 2 to 4 then 8 Gb FibreChannel (FC) – while preserving the chassis, backplane and power supplies. There have been…