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Cisco Live: Now the data centre follows the data

Cisco has unveiled a new architecture that, it says, “extends the data center to everywhere that data lives and everywhere applications are deployed”.

Making the announcement at the Cisco Live conference in Barcelona yesterday, the company declared that the data centre is no longer a fixed place: “It exists wherever data is created, processed and used.”

As part of a quest to bring this “data centre anywhere” vision to life, Cisco introduced a range of innovations across networking, hyperconvergence, security and automation. They include:

“Enterprises should be able to deploy applications based on the needs of their business, not the limitations of their technology,” said Roland Acra, senior vice president and general manager, Data Center Business Group, Cisco. “Customers want to deploy applications and manage data across a range of diverse platforms, from on-premises to cloud-based. That is why we are taking the ‘center’ out of the data center. Today, Cisco is helping our customers expand their reach into every cloud, every data center, and every branch.”

Said Adrian Comley, general manager, Dynamic Network Services, Global Services, BT, “BT adopted Cisco ACI as the basis for our newly launched SD-Fabric managed service to extend SDN capabilities into the data center. With ACI, we can offer customers full automation, central policy control and built-in security.

“We’re working with Cisco as it extends ACI policy to AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud services. With Cisco we’re enabling customers to rapidly deploy fabric extensions and provision applications anywhere with a repeatable, proven design for operational simplicity and better security.”

Click here to read about three ways in which Cisco says it is delivering on its new data centre vision.

New Data Center Innovation

Cisco says it is delivering on its new data center vision in three ways:

New Data Center Enterprise Agreement

Cisco says it is also making it easier than ever for customers to buy its data centre technology with the new Cisco Enterprise Agreement. Customers can now take advantage of a single standardized three- or five-year licensing agreement across seven suites, including ACI, HyperFlex, Intersight and Tetration. The Cisco EA provides customers with choice in deployment models and portability across physical, virtual or cloud deployments. It lets customers have access to what they need, when and where they need it, available from their preferred channel partner. (Read the blog).

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