{"id":651927,"date":"2013-04-11T15:02:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T19:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/?p=95451"},"modified":"2013-04-11T15:02:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T19:02:21","slug":"cisco-microsoft-team-to-target-the-data-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/651927","title":{"rendered":"Cisco, Microsoft Team to Target the Data Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cisco<\/strong> (CSCO) <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.cisco.com\/press-release-content?type=webcontent&amp;articleId=1170048\">announced<\/a> a range of new joint technologies and integrated solutions targeting data centers that use Microsoft\u2019s Cloud OS technologies. With those customers in mind the two companies are\u00a0combining the\u00a0Cisco Unified Data Center architecture\u00a0with\u00a0Microsoft Fast Track architecture solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Fast Track 3.0 solutions simplify the management of combined Cisco and Microsoft data centers\u00a0by giving Microsoft customers programmatic access to the\u00a0Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS). \u00a0Both Cisco and EMC and Cisco and NetApp reference architectures have been validated for the Microsoft Fast Track 3.0 program. The Cisco Nexus 1000V series virtual and cloud networking platform, combined with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Extensible Switch and System Center Virtual Machine Manager allow\u00a0customers who wish to virtualize certain aspects of their data center networks can do so alongside physical networking and cloud computing infrastructure.\u00a0The\u00a0Cisco UCS UI Extension Add-in for System Center 2012 SP1 Virtual Machine Manager\u00a0provides centralized management of Cisco UCS by allowing access to Cisco UCS management controls from within System Center Virtual Machine Manager.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMicrosoft\u2019s Cloud OS approach, based on Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 SP1, gives customers a comprehensive platform for implementing their infrastructure on premises, with a hosting service provider, and in the cloud,&#8221; said Brad Anderson, corporate vice president, Windows Server and System Center at Microsoft.\u00a0&#8221;Combining the proven Microsoft Fast Track architecture with Cisco\u2019s innovative Unified Data Center architecture provides partners and customers with a first-class option for navigating their way through today\u2019s new age of data center deployment and management.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cisco and Microsoft intend to roll out targeted channel initiatives in select countries to enable alignment in selling Microsoft Fast Track 3.0 architecture solutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCisco and Microsoft are focused on helping customers realize a new business vision for the cloud era, and Scalability Experts has become a key leader in advancing this vision by leveraging scalable and high-performance platforms,&#8221; said Raj Gill, founder and chief technology officer, Scalability Experts.\u00a0&#8221;Increasing the performance of database operations, lowering IT costs and improving business decision-making capabilities is what we focus on delivering to each of our clients.\u00a0 Microsoft solutions and Cisco\u2019s UCS compute family are key strategic platforms for enabling us to consistently exceed our customer\u2019s expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco (CSCO) announced a range of new joint technologies and integrated solutions targeting data centers that use Microsoft\u2019s Cloud OS technologies. With those customers in mind the two companies are\u00a0combining the\u00a0Cisco Unified Data Center architecture\u00a0with\u00a0Microsoft Fast Track architecture solutions. Microsoft Fast Track 3.0 solutions simplify the management of combined Cisco and Microsoft data centers\u00a0by giving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}