Company joins IBM and others Next week Hewlett Packard will begin reselling Cisco Systems’ line of MDS storage switches. HP joins IBM as the initial resellers of Cisco’s line of multi-protocol switches.In addition to offering the MDS 9509 and 9216, HP will also introduce a new schema for selling switches.According to Edgardo Lopez, a marketing manager at HP, the company will now have a B-series of products, M-series, and C-series. The first initial of the individual series represents Brocade Communications Systems, McData, and Cisco, respectively. Each offers a family of switches that are sold with HP’s line of storage arrays. Lopez says this classification will make it easier for customers and shows the breadth and depth of HP’s offering.The addition of Cisco was a no-brainer, explains Lopez. “Cisco has an attractive product from a customer point of view,” he said. “The multi-protocol support and modular design of the switch is of interest to customers.”Lopez said that by Q4, HP will resell the entire Cisco MDS product family. EMC, HDS, and Sun Microsystems are also likely candidates to resell the Cisco products. Technology Industry