Cisco launches Unified Computing System
Cisco has just unveiled evolutionary new data centre architecture, innovative services and an open ecosystem help customers develop next-generation data centres that unleash the full power of virtualisation. These are based on the company's Unified...
Cisco has just unveiled evolutionary new data centre architecture, innovative services and an open ecosystem help customers develop next-generation data centres that unleash the full power of virtualisation.
These are based on the company's Unified Computing System, an architecture that brings together the networking, storage and computing worlds to provide a superior system for virtualisation. Comprehensive management tools complement the system.
"Cisco recognised the market transition created by virtualisation three years ago, and the Unified Computing System is a result of this," Ruben Azzopardi, Cisco's country manager for Malta explained to i-Tech. "The Unified Computing System is designed to make better use of virtualisation technologies, as it is able to deliver more memory and i/o (input/output) throughput for the CPU resources in the system. This means that applications can have faster access storage and network resources, and customers can have more virtual servers than traditional server designs.
"It is also a way of reducing power consumption (and hence operating cost) by using fewer more powerful components to achieve the same number of virtual servers."
Cisco said this system reduces total cost of ownership with up to 20 per cent reduction in capital expenditures and up to 30 per cent reduction in operational expenditures. It also improves IT productivity and improves business agility, shifts the focus from IT maintenance to IT innovation, increases scalability without added complexity, and improves energy efficiency.
"However, just having more virtual servers is not enough, because IT people need tools to make it easier to create, manage and support these virtual servers. Cisco sees a market opportunity to eliminate the manual integration of virtual servers in favour of an integrated architecture that breaks down the silos between compute, storage, virtualisation, and network platforms," concluded Mr Azzopardi.
These are based on the company's Unified Computing System, an architecture that brings together the networking, storage and computing worlds to provide a superior system for virtualisation. Comprehensive management tools complement the system.
"Cisco recognised the market transition created by virtualisation three years ago, and the Unified Computing System is a result of this," Ruben Azzopardi, Cisco's country manager for Malta explained to i-Tech. "The Unified Computing System is designed to make better use of virtualisation technologies, as it is able to deliver more memory and i/o (input/output) throughput for the CPU resources in the system. This means that applications can have faster access storage and network resources, and customers can have more virtual servers than traditional server designs.
"It is also a way of reducing power consumption (and hence operating cost) by using fewer more powerful components to achieve the same number of virtual servers."
Cisco said this system reduces total cost of ownership with up to 20 per cent reduction in capital expenditures and up to 30 per cent reduction in operational expenditures. It also improves IT productivity and improves business agility, shifts the focus from IT maintenance to IT innovation, increases scalability without added complexity, and improves energy efficiency.
"However, just having more virtual servers is not enough, because IT people need tools to make it easier to create, manage and support these virtual servers. Cisco sees a market opportunity to eliminate the manual integration of virtual servers in favour of an integrated architecture that breaks down the silos between compute, storage, virtualisation, and network platforms," concluded Mr Azzopardi.