Cisco and VMware announced they plan to
expand their strategic partnership to include integrated products and solutions
aimed at delivering the software defined datacenter. This partnership expansion
will be highlighted by an investment in dedicated engineering teams
collaborating on deeper integrations across the VMware cloud infrastructure and
management stacks and Cisco's Data Center Networking and Fabric Computing
platforms. The companies' investment in joint dedicated engineering teams will
represent a new level of collaboration which will enable the software defined
datacenter through unprecedented coupling of virtual and physical
infrastructure.
Highlights:
- . Cisco and VMware will
make significant joint engineering investments to develop technology
integration initiatives, which will launch a new set of solutions designed
to provide customers unprecedented levels of agile compute and network
services, workload and workspace mobility, end-to-end visibility, and ease
of troubleshooting across their physical and virtual infrastructures.
- . To support customer
demand and choice, VMware will integrate the Cisco Nexus 1000V Series
Switches with the new VMware vCloud® Suite 5.1, also announced today, and
other VMware products.
- . Cisco and VMware will
develop Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)-based cloud solutions, which
will bundle Cisco virtual networking, virtual services and management such
as the Nexus 1000V virtual switch, CSR 1000V cloud router, ASA 1000V cloud
firewall, virtual WAAS for WAN optimization, and Intelligent Automation
for Cloud with VMware vSphere® 5.1, VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 and
complementary management offerings.
- . Furthering the
commitment to mutual customers, Cisco will resell VMware vCloud Suite 5.1,
which will feature enhanced interoperability with Cisco Nexus 1000V.
- . As part of the
companies' joint vision for the transformation of the workspace in the
post-PC era, VMware and Cisco are expanding their joint solutions with
Cisco VXI and VMware View to introduce new integrated solutions for SMB
and ROBO customers featuring Cisco e-Series UCS servers and VMware View®.
- . Cisco and VMware will
also provide Cisco Validated Designs and reference architectures to
simplify and accelerate customer implementation of these joint solutions.
- . Cisco and VMware
joint solutions will be made available for VCE, as well as ecosystem
partners, to help drive customer adoption of its industry-leading
converged infrastructure platforms. Cisco and VMware remain strongly
committed, along with EMC, to the VCE partnership.
This expanded partnership will leverage Cisco's history of innovative
leadership in networking and systems with VMware's industry leadership in
software-based virtualization and cloud infrastructure. To date, the
partnership has delivered groundbreaking products and solutions including:
- . Nexus 1000V – In
2009, VMware and Cisco delivered a distributed virtual switch from Cisco
enabling network administrators to simplify network management between
their physical and virtual environments. Since its inception, more than
6,000 customers have licensed this joint solution.
- . Cisco UCS – In 2009,
Cisco introduced the Unified Computing System (UCS), a new x86 platform
that radically simplified the management of compute, storage access,
networking and virtualization and is tightly integrated with the VMware
vSphere platform, enabling customers to reduce their CAPEX and OPEX as
they expand their virtual and cloud infrastructures.
- . Converged
Infrastructure – Cisco and EMC, together with VMware and with investments
from Intel, established the VCE coalition in 2009, spearheading the
movement toward converged infrastructure. Customers globally have
recognized the value of Vblock™ Infrastructure Platforms in accelerating
the migration of enterprise workloads to private and public clouds.
- . Cisco VXI and VMware
View – In 2012, Cisco and VMware cooperated to deliver a unified
collaboration solution leveraging VMware cloud infrastructure, VMware View
and Cisco UCS, Cisco Wide Area Application Services and Unified
Communications platforms to enable customers to migrate to a more open,
mobile and immersive workspace environment in the post-PC era.
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