Cloud Computing: VCE Taps Cisco ACI for New Vblock System, More Secure Data Centers

Grazed from CIO-Today. Author: Jennifer LeClaire.

The next evolution of VCE’s Vblock System has emerged with a little help from Cisco. This version integrates the networking giant’s Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure, or ACI, to help developers build secure, flexible data centers that can adapt more rapidly — and with less effort — to business and app requirements as they change.

That sounds like a tall order but it’s the potential fruit that the partnership between Cisco and VCE could deliver by tapping into software-defined innovations to drive operational efficiencies. The proposed endgame: to help customers be more successful in a competitive cloud era…

Flexibility, Diversity

With this move, Tim Page, chief operating office at VCE, is making it clear that his company 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.” And Soni Jiandani, senior vice president of the Cisco Insieme Networks Business Unit, is pledging that the solution will help “lower the total cost of ownership” and drive agility…

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