SAN JOSE, Calif. and
RICHARDSON, Texas, Nov. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Cisco and VCE
today announced the next evolution of the Vblock® System with Cisco
Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) to make it easier and
faster for customers to build flexible, highly secure data centers
that can rapidly adapt to changing application and business
requirements. The combination of VCE™ Vblock Systems converged
infrastructure with Cisco ACI provides the operational simplicity
and software-defined innovation necessary to be successful in the
cloud era.
Cisco and VCE enable IT organizations to deliver greater
business value through simple automation and centralized management
and policy-based infrastructure that are attuned to the dynamic
requirements of complex, business applications. With ACI on a
Vblock System, IT can define a policy based on what an application
requires, such as adherence to security compliance and data
governance mandates. Cisco ACI will continue to enforce that policy
even as the application scales up and scales out as it maintains a
superior experience for end users. By extending Cisco ACI to Vblock
Systems, customers will be able to quickly manage applications
across leading cloud management platforms with a broad choice of
network and security services delivered by 45+ technology vendors
in the ACI eco-system. Cisco ACI on a VCE Vblock System provides
consistency of control across virtual, physical, and
container-based workloads while simultaneously providing visibility
into application and multi-tenant health through comprehensive and
deep telemetry.
"Once we chose to build our software-defined network based on
Cisco technologies we started talking to VCE because of its strong
relationship with Cisco. It became evident pretty quickly that
Cisco ACI on a VCE Vblock System will enable Arqiva to deploy more
quickly and have greater operational control through multi-layered
security capabilities, to meet business and IT objectives. We also
feel confident that the deep engineering knowledge that Cisco and
VCE have of one another's products will ensure we can deploy our
new network with minimum risk, and at speed so we can realize the
benefits immediately," said Paul
Freemantle, IT & Connectivity Director, Arqiva.
Arqiva, a leading communications infrastructure company, needed
a new network so it could adopt a cloud strategy, to improve the
efficiency of its IT stack and allow it to invest in new services
for its customers. Choosing a Cisco software-defined network will
allow Arqiva to gain IT agility, operational simplicity and
efficiency to help achieve its business goals. Arqiva will extend
the value of its VCE converged infrastructure by gaining
application-level control and visibility across its entire data
center, so it has network consistency and high-level of
security. The Vblock System with Cisco ACI will simplify
troubleshooting to achieve rapid problem resolution for physical,
virtual or cloud workloads and enable Arqiva to achieve faster
deployment and operational control.
Organizations today have new types of applications—including
"third-platform" applications for social and mobile computing,
cloud services, big data, and the Internet of Things— that can grow
to hundreds of thousands of virtual servers. These new applications
as well as traditional mission-critical applications impose new
kinds of demands on IT infrastructure. VCE Vscale™ Architecture, an
innovative "scale-up" AND "scale out" architecture that delivers
simplicity and speed at data center scale, and Cisco ACI complement
each other to enable organizations to build the next generation
data center. Cisco ACI is designed to provide infrastructure and
logical networking framework that can stand multiple VCE converged
infrastructure systems together. Cisco ACI introduces a policy
model that enables customers to define their networks based off
their application requirements while Vscale architecture
orchestrates the physical and logical network that ACI provides to
enable multiple VCE systems to operate as a single policy automated
pool of system resources. Customers then have the ability to decide
where to place or move workloads for such instances as disaster
recovery to end of quarter requirements to even determining the
right location to accommodate large workloads where energy
consumption is more cost effective.
"Users in the Wikibon community look to gain competitive
advantage with the adoption of new technology. Solutions like VCE
Vblock Systems and Vscale architecture will enable data center
flexibility and operational simplicity. Vscale architecture
leverages Cisco ACI software defined networking to get the
functionality and geographical reach customers want," says Wikibon
Senior Analyst Stu Miniman. "VCE
does the heavy lifting of extensive revision testing so that IT can
spend more time on serving the business."
VCE & Cisco Quotes:
"Customers are finding that with ACI on a VCE Vblock System they
have better visibility across the entire enterprise and application
deployment time and time spent on networking administrative
activities are significantly reduced. Most importantly, making
networking changes are much faster with significantly lower risk,
enabling IT to quickly respond to new or changing business
requirements. VCE is committed to supporting the customer journey
to the hybrid cloud which makes the network increasingly a focal
point for optimizing resource pooling and sharing across the hybrid
cloud," said Tim Page, Chief
Operating Officer, VCE.
"Managing and deploying applications are critical to how modern
enterprises deliver today's business services. With Cisco ACI on
VCE Vblock Systems, IT departments now have the ability to improve
business and application agility, scalability and reliability
across Vblock Systems as well as beyond Vblock Systems into the
network. This solution helps lower the total cost of ownership and
brings flexibility to businesses today who require great speed and
simplicity to remain competitive," said Soni Jiandani, Senior Vice President of the
Cisco Insieme Networks Business Unit.
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ABOUT VCE
VCE provides converged solutions that accelerate the adoption of
cloud-based computing models for enterprises and service providers
globally. As part of the EMC Federation, focused on enabling
businesses and services providers to transform their operations
through cloud computing, VCE's industry-leading converged
infrastructure dramatically simplifies IT. Through innovative
products and services, VCE enables customers to focus on business
innovation instead of integrating, validating and managing IT
infrastructure.
Copyright © 2015 VCE Company, LLC. All rights reserved. VCE,
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"partner" or "partnership" does not imply a legal partnership
relationship between VCE and any other organization.
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