SAN JOSE, Calif. and
ARMONK, N.Y., March 5, 2017
/PRNewswire/ -- Cisco (NYSE: CSCO) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today
announced new solutions for VersaStack™, converged infrastructure
jointly developed by the two companies. VersaStack helps
organizations reduce complexity and automate processes to
accelerate the delivery of applications. The additional
technologies incorporated in the announcement today extend
VersaStack to include hybrid cloud capabilities and also take
advantage of the latest software defined storage technologies to
address cloud-scale applications.
This broad set of solutions allows IT organizations to:
- Simplify and standardize service delivery
through infrastructure automation: with Cisco ONE Enterprise
Cloud Suite and VersaStack; improving efficiency while reducing
complexity and cost; and delivering a rich set of storage
capabilities.
- Deploy premier solutions for hybrid IT: utilizing Cisco
CloudCenter and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management to deploy,
provision, and manage applications and data in hybrid cloud
environments, with 20+ cloud types and regions, including IBM
Bluemix Infrastructure (formerly IBM Softlayer).
- Improve the manageability, recovery and storage of
data: Spectrum Software Defined Storage with VersaStack
and Cisco UCS® help improve efficiency and leverage existing server
and storage resources while delivering a rich set of storage
capabilities.
- Easy scaling to multi-petabyte storage for fast growing
cloud-scale applications: The combination of the Cisco® UCS
S-Series Storage Servers with IBM Cloud Object Storage delivers an
on-premises storage solution for data intensive workloads by
supporting IT organizations to help prepare for business
requirements with an easily scalable solution.
"Our GIS, engineering, and other applications were slow and
underperforming," said Bill Reed,
Chief Technology Officer, Arizona State Land Department. "With our
VersaStack solution, we've been able to boost system and staff
performance and enable mobile access to business-critical data and
tools via a hybrid cloud. VersaStack gives us faster, smarter
systems that enable us to make better-informed decisions about the
State Land Trust much more efficiently for the benefit of all
students in the Arizona Public
Schools education system, the primary beneficiary of the
trust."
"These additions to VersaStack create an environment well suited
for both traditional and emerging scale-out applications,
addressing our customer needs in a simplified way," said
Liz Centoni, Senior Vice President
and General Manager, Cisco Computing Systems Product Group. "By
bringing together Cisco and IBM technologies for hybrid IT we help
customers diversify their consumption models and achieve the
agility and efficiency digital transformation demands."
"Pressures facing today's organizations are at the center of our
VersaStack collaboration with Cisco," said Ed Walsh, general manager, IBM Storage and
Software Defined Infrastructure. "For clients, the expanded
VersaStack portfolio delivers extensive IT automation, hybrid cloud
versatility for applications and data, support for object storage
easily scaling into multi-petabyte configurations, and the ability
to cut costs by improving efficiency, manageability, and
protection."
Details of this announcement will be discussed by IBM's
Ed Walsh, general manager, IBM
Storage and Software Defined Infrastructure, and Cisco's
Satinder Sethi, vice president,
Datacenter Group on Wednesday, March
8 at Cisco Live!™ Melbourne
2017 during the Innovation Talk: Go Beyond Automation: Advancing
Your Next Gen Data Centre.
Supporting Resources:
- Join the Cisco and IBM live broadcast at 2:45 p.m. AEDT / 10:45
p.m. EST (March 7) /
7:45 p.m. PST (March 7).
- Please visit the following blogs, which provide further details
about today's announcement: VersaStack for Hybrid Cloud:
Introducing the Converged Cloud, Private Transformation with
VersaStack and An Ocean of Possibilities with IBM Spectrum Software
Defined Storage and VersaStack.
- For more information about VersaStack visit landing pages
via IBM and Cisco.
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IBM Media Relations
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Cisco Public Relations
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617-571-1233
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