Cisco and the virtual data center

Cisco wants in on the data center -- the virtual kind, that is. If that message has failed to escape your notice till now, then the company hopes its latest raft of announcements will drive home the point. With the Cisco Live! customer conference as the backdrop, the company revealed more of how it intends to participate in the virtual infrastructure. VFrame, its network-driven service orchestration provisioning platform, remains a centerpiece. An enhanced version, VFrame 1.2, will support integration between Cisco's Application Control Engine (ACE) software and VMware ESX virtual servers. VFrame 1.2 could virtualize servers to ACE virtual devices, for example. Read more on Cisco's Data Center 3.0 plans Read more on how Cisco plans to manage the virtual data center Listen to blogger Mitchell Ashley on VFrame's significance