Cisco unveiled on Sunday an evolutionary new data center architecture, innovative services and an open ecosystem of best in class partners to help customers develop next-generation data centers that unleash the full power of virtualization. With the launch, Cisco is delivering on the promise of virtualization through unified computing - an architecture that bridges the silos in the data center into one unified architecture using industry standard technologies. Key to Cisco's approach is the Cisco Unified Computing System which unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization resources in a single energy efficient system that can reduce IT infrastructure costs and complexity, help extend capital assets and improve business agility well into the future. To help customers accelerate the transition to the unified computing architecture, Cisco is paving the way with a comprehensive suite of new Unified Computing services. In addition, Cisco also announced collaboration with industry leaders on the Unified Computing System and architecture. Based on industry standards, the Unified Computing System is a new computing model that uses integrated management and combines a “wire once” unified fabric with an industry standard computing platform to optimize virtualization, reduce data center total overall cost, and provide dynamic resource provisioning for increased business agility.
