Cisco added to its Data Center 3.0 strategy by integrating its VFrame Data Center virtualization gear with VMware's Virtual Infrastructure (see story). The result should provide customers with enhanced IT automation capabilities, including added VMware ESX Server capacity on demand, as well as orchestrated configuration of network services.
Customers will benefit from increased IT agility and flexibility, faster coordinated provisioning of storage and network resources, and improved business continuance, according to Cisco.
Cisco unveiled Data Center 3.0 amid much fanfare at its Networkers conference in July. The strategy is intended to enable customers to better utilize their data center resources, build less expensive storage-area networks and enhance data security. Among other features, it involves melding disparate data center networking technologies – Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand – into a single fabric for connecting and virtualization network elements. VFrame is a hardware and software platform for provisioning resources together as virtual services.
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