Cisco Live! --
Demonstrating accelerating momentum for its new cloud business, Cisco
CSCO today announced new cloud partners and customers, an
updated array of cloud service offerings, and key cloud organization
leadership appointments.
Today's news builds on plans announced in March by Cisco to build the
world's largest global Intercloud together with its partners to
address customer requirements for a globally distributed, highly
secure cloud platform capable of meeting the robust demands of the
Internet of Everything. Designed for high-value application
workloads, with real-time analytics and "near infinite" scalability,
Cisco's open Intercloud allows local hosting and local provider
options that enable data sovereignty. The hybrid cloud capabilities
that differentiate the Cisco(R) Cloud are built upon the Cisco
Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and Cisco Intercloud Fabric
technologies.
Today's Announcement Highlights
-- Dimension Data and Sungard Availability Services (Sungard AS) will
join Telstra as Cisco Intercloud partners -- cloud providers that will
invest with Cisco to align their public cloud infrastructure to the
Cisco Cloud architecture and deliver Cisco Cloud services to customers
and resellers.
-- VCE and NetApp announced they will collaborate closely with Cisco to
build "Intercloud-ready" integrated infrastructure solutions.
-- Johnson Controls announced that it will enable Cisco Cloud partners
and customers to quickly add computing capacity via modular data
center solutions.
-- Accenture has licensed Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud software
to expand the cloud management and orchestration capabilities of the
Accenture Cloud Platform.
Partner and Customer Momentum in Detail
-- Dimension Data and Cisco will expand their 23-year relationship to
accelerate and streamline hybrid cloud adoption globally. Cisco will
use Dimension Data's Managed Cloud Platform and SaaS solutions to
deliver a suite of midmarket cloud services to its customers and
resellers. Dimension Data and Cisco will partner to deliver an
infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solution that will be packaged with
Cisco technology and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications,
including Microsoft SQL Server and SharePoint. The Cisco validated and
co-branded solutions will be sold by Cisco through the Cisco channel
partner community. Dimension Data's global cloud service is available
via 10 data centers around the world, with plans to expand to 13
locations by September 2014. As a Cisco Intercloud partner, Dimension
Data will evolve its Managed Cloud Platform to embrace Cisco ACI and
Intercloud Fabric -- the building blocks of the Cisco Cloud
architecture.
-- Sungard Availability Services is a Cisco Intercloud partner, utilizing
its cloud infrastructure to deliver new Cisco Cloud services to
customers and resellers. As a Cisco Intercloud partner, Sungard AS is
expanding its cloud infrastructure utilizing the foundational elements
of the Cisco Cloud architecture, including Cisco ACI. Sungard AS is
poised to become the first cloud provider to market with a Cisco
ACI-based public cloud offer built on an application-centric cloud
architecture. Cisco will feature two cloud services from Sungard AS in
its service catalog: an IaaS offering that enables customers to
rapidly deploy hybrid clouds; and a disaster recovery-as-a-service
offering to deliver business continuity.
-- VCE today announced it will integrate Cisco's Intercloud Fabric with
Vblock Systems. By providing an onramp to Cisco's Intercloud workload
migration capabilities, VCE Vblock Systems will enable customers to
rapidly, seamlessly and securely manage their private, hybrid and
public cloud environments. This integration will enable the management
of cloud-enabled workloads across heterogeneous environments to be
centralized with consistent network and security policies and
optimized to fit the needs of the business.
-- NetApp today announced plans to integrate its industry-leading data
management technology with Cisco's Intercloud technology to simplify
secure, cross-cloud interoperability and to accelerate adoption of
hybrid clouds by mutual customers. NetApp and Cisco will also
incorporate the Cisco Intercloud Fabric into the FlexPod roadmap. By
delivering uniform control across workload locations, FlexPod will be
able to combine the transformative power of public cloud computing
with private cloud deployments. More broadly across their portfolio,
NetApp will continue to integrate its clustered Data ONTAP technology
with the Cisco Intercloud Fabric and Cisco ACI policy control to
centralize and simplify data management and data movement for
cloud-enabled application workloads.
-- Accenture has licensed Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud (IAC)
software as a component of its Accenture Cloud Platform (ACP). Cisco
IAC will provide the cloud management and orchestration software for
the next release of the Accenture Cloud Platform (ACP), Accenture's
cloud management platform that provides value-added cloud services to
clients, and for public cloud services offered by other cloud
providers. Cisco IAC was chosen as ACP's preferred cloud management
software on the strength of its service catalog and orchestration
capabilities.
-- Johnson Controls is the preferred global provider of modular data
center solutions for the Cisco Cloud. By using modular components for
computing, communications, security, power and cooling, the timelines
for new data center construction are cut in half, allowing Cisco Cloud
customers and partners to quickly deploy "Intercloud-ready" computing
capabilities. Johnson Controls also offers the ability to manage and
remotely monitor data center facilities for Cisco Cloud customers and
partners. As a multi-industrial company and industry leader in
facility construction and management, Johnson Controls provides
facility management services in more than 250 data centers across 29
countries.
-- The University of British Columbia (UBC) announced that it will use
Cisco EnergyWise(TM) cloud energy management services, which deliver
automated management of electricity usage. UBC will use Cisco
EnergyWise cloud energy management services to expand its current
EnergyWise networked devices 10-fold and will work together with Cisco
to develop custom interfaces so additional devices can be managed by
EnergyWise.
-- Cisco announced that it has surpassed 175 channel partners, including
CDW and GTRI, who are now certified to manage and resell Cisco Cloud
services.
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