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Cisco Gets Set: Page 3 of 3

But Cisco still refuses to give out its own pricing for the MDS 9000 family, even though it claims it started shipping to customers in mid-December. Perhaps we'll have to wait until it officially completes the "acquisition" of Andiamo Systems Inc. -- which is actually an in-house project bankrolled solely by Cisco -- before we find out (see Cisco's Creative Andiamo Options and Cisco Buys Andiamo).

Also on Tuesday, HDS officially became the first vendor to qualify the MDS switches with its storage systems. HDS also announced that it has signed a non-binding letter of intent to resell and support the Cisco switches (see HDS Certifies Cisco MDS 9000).

"When the terms of the agreement between Cisco and Hitachi are finalized, Hitachi Data Systems will make the Cisco MDS 9000 available to its customers with full service and support," HDS said in a statement. However, a company representative was unable to say when the reseller agreement is expected to become official. HDS didn't have pricing information, either.

Todd Spangler, US Editor, Byte and Switch