ANAHEIM, CA--(Marketwire - July 24, 2007) - NETWORKERS AT CISCO LIVE 2007 - Cisco®
(
NASDAQ:
CSCO) announced today a broad array of innovative new data center
products and solutions that will enable customers to better utilize their
data center resources, deploy more robust business continuance, build
cost-effective storage area networks, and enhance data security. In
addition, Cisco announced at a press conference today its vision for
next-generation data centers, called Data Center 3.0. The Cisco vision for
Data Center 3.0 entails the real-time, dynamic orchestration of
infrastructure services from shared pools of virtualized server, storage
and network resources, while optimizing application performance, service
levels, efficiency and collaboration.
"Cisco's success is built on listening to our customers and partners, and
on understanding market transitions," said John Chambers, chairman and CEO,
Cisco. "Because the network is uniquely positioned to be the platform for
the data center, we are investing in innovations to help our customers
transform their data centers for improved efficiency and increased business
productivity."
Over the next 24 months, Cisco will deliver innovative new products,
programs, and capabilities to help customers realize the Cisco Data Center
3.0 vision. New products and programs announced today support that vision,
representing the first steps in helping customers to create next-generation
data centers.
Cisco VFrame Data Center
VFrame Data Center (VFrame DC) is an orchestration platform that leverages
network intelligence to provision resources together as virtualized
services. This industry-first approach greatly reduces application
deployment times, improves overall resource utilization, and offers greater
business agility. Further, VFrame DC includes an open API, and easily
integrates with third party management applications, as well as
best-of-breed server and storage virtualization offerings.
With VFrame DC, customers can now link their compute, networking and
storage infrastructures together as a set of virtualized services. This
services approach provides a simple yet powerful way to quickly view all
the services configured at the application level to improve troubleshooting
and change management. VFrame DC offers a policy engine for automating
resource changes in response to infrastructure outages and performance
changes. Additionally, these changes can be controlled by external
monitoring systems via integration with the VFrame DC web services
application programming interface (API).
New Cisco "Trusted WAN Optimization" Software
The new Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) software release
introduces the industry's first "trusted WAN optimization solution" by
offering highly secure wide area network (WAN) acceleration and accurate
application performance management. Offering powerful encryption of data
stored on Cisco WAAS devices, the new software enables IT teams to deploy
WAN optimization across their organizations while preserving and
strengthening branch security. To maximize application visibility and
accurately measure ROI, Cisco WAAS also provides tight integration with
NetQoS application monitoring products, delivering the industry's first
solution for end-to-end monitoring and acceleration of application traffic.
Cisco WAAS is an application acceleration and WAN optimization solution
that helps enterprises to consolidate costly branch office servers and
storage into centrally managed data centers, while preserving local area
network (LAN)-like service levels for remote users.
Enhanced Cisco ACE XML Gateway Software
The new Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) Extensible Markup Language
(XML) Gateway software delivers enhanced capabilities for enabling secure
Web services, providing customers with better management, visibility, and
performance of their XML applications and Web 2.0 services. The new
software includes a wide variety of new capabilities and features plus
enhanced performance monitoring and reporting, providing improved
operations and capacity planning for Web services secured by the Cisco ACE
XML Gateway.
18/4 Multiservice Module
The Cisco MDS 18/4 Multiservice Module provides eighteen 4-Gbps Fibre
Channel ports and four Gigabit Ethernet IP storage services ports. It
offers virtual SANs (VSANs), inter-VSAN routing (IVR), remote SAN extension
with high-performance Fibre Channel over IP, integrated Cisco Multilayer
Datacenter Switch (MDS) Storage Media Encryption (SME) as a distributed
fabric service, advanced Fiber Connectivity (FICON) services,
cost-effective Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI)
connectivity to Ethernet-attached servers, and a host of capabilities to
optimize WAN resources for backup and replication. The module can reside in
MDS 9500 Series directors or 9200 Series semi-modular fabric switches.
Cisco MDS 9222i Multiservice Modular Switch
With a compact form factor and advanced capabilities, the Cisco MDS 9222i
Multiservice Modular Switch is an ideal solution for departmental and
remote branch-office storage area networks (SANs). It provides an
optimized platform for deploying high-performance SAN extension solutions,
distributed intelligent fabric services, and cost-effective multiprotocol
connectivity for both open and mainframe environments. The MDS 9222i
provides eighteen 4-Gbps Fibre Channel ports, four Gigabit Ethernet IP
storage services ports, and a modular expansion slot to host switching and
services modules. The fixed slot of MDS 9222i offers the same features and
functions as the MDS 18/4 Multiservice Module.
Cisco MDS 9134 Multilayer Fabric Switch
Designed for midrange to large enterprise customers, the Cisco MDS 9134
Multilayer Fabric Switch provides line-rate 4-Gbps and 10-Gbps ports at an
affordable price in a compact one-rack-unit (1RU) form factor. With the
flexibility to expand from 24 to 32 ports and optionally activate two
10-Gbps ports, the new Cisco fabric switch also provides VSANs,
PortChannels, quality of service (QoS), FICON protocol integration, and
security for
cost-effective departmental and enterprise SANs. The Cisco MDS 9134
includes a Quick Configuration Wizard and provides built-in storage network
management, with all features available through a command-line interface
(CLI) or the Cisco Fabric Manager, and integration with third-party storage
management tools.
Cisco Data Mobility Manager
The Cisco Data Mobility Manager (DMM) is a fabric-based data migration
solution that transfers block data non-disruptively across heterogeneous
storage volumes and across distances, whether the host is online or
offline. With no host components to deploy, the time-consuming, costly,
and sensitive task of installing and licensing hardware and software on
servers is avoided. In addition, host central processing unit (CPU) and
bandwidth cycles are available to the application in their entirety, so
applications do not experience any deterioration in performance. By simply
enabling the DMM feature on the Cisco MDS 9000 Storage Services Module
located anywhere in the SAN, data migration can be configured without host
agents, without rewiring, with minimal performance impact, and without
downtime. The Cisco DMM provides transparent online data migration across
heterogeneous storage arrays and centralized management with a graphical
user interface (GUI) and wizard for easy configuration.
Cisco Storage Media Encryption
Cisco integrates Storage Media Encryption (SME) into Cisco-based SAN
fabrics to offer seamless management of data encryption across multiple
types of heterogeneous SAN-attached storage devices: disks, tape drives,
and virtual tape libraries. By encrypting data in the network fabric,
customers can secure data on media that lack native encryption
capabilities, such as legacy tapes and disks. By using the Cisco SAN
fabric, customers can eliminate the need to manage separate stand alone
encryption appliances. Cisco SME technology is non-intrusive and works with
existing backup applications. With an open application programming
interface (API) for key management, Cisco SME also gives customers the
flexibility to deploy stored, encrypted data solutions that best meet their
operational needs.
Cisco N-Port Virtualizer
Based on an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) T11 standard, the
Cisco N-Port Virtualizer (NPV) simplifies deployment and management of
large scale SAN-attached Blade Server environments. An NPV-enabled Blade
Switch presents itself as a Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (FC HBA) to the
core SAN. This reduces the number of FC Domain IDs used, which improves SAN
scalability, minimizes interoperability issues with the core SAN, and
simplifies management. NPV is available on HP and IBM blade switches and on
Cisco MDS 9124 and MDS 9134 Fabric Switches.
Cisco Smart Call Home
Smart Call Home is a new connected service feature available through Cisco
SMARTnet that provides proactive, detailed diagnostics and real-time alerts
on core network devices. Smart Call Home will be initially available on the
Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series switches and will be offered on other Cisco
products over time. Call Home devices continuously monitor network device
health and automatically notify the customer of potential issues using
secure transmissions. If a serious problem arises, Smart Call Home
automatically generates a Cisco TAC service request that is routed to the
right team for the particular problem. Smart Call Home also provides access
to a web portal with personalized Call Home messages, recommendations, and
more for all Call Home devices on that network. For more information about
Smart Call Home please visit:
www.cisco.com/go/smartcall
Cisco Data Center Assurance Program
The Cisco Data Center Assurance Program (DCAP) an industry-first system and
solution-level testing program that involves all of the components
necessary to implement and operate a data center infrastructure. DCAP
benefits customers by enabling faster deployment, reducing risk, improving
end-to-end stability and scalability, reducing downtime, supporting faster
recovery, and enabling faster, more reliable technology upgrades. Cisco has
created the DCAP program and validated network and systems architectures
for LAN, SAN, Business Continuance, Optical Internetworking, Application
Networking Services, global load balancing, and Wide Area Application
Services (WAAS).
Channel Partner Specializations
As part of its Data Center 3.0 initiative, Cisco today announced it is
building its data center channel specialization strategy around three key
technology groups: network infrastructure, storage networking and
application networking.
-- The new Advanced Data Center Networking Infrastructure Specialization
enables channel partners to design, sell, install, and support a
comprehensive data center solution based on Cisco Catalyst Ethernet
switching platforms and Cisco Security.
-- The evolution of the Storage Networking Specialization into the
Advanced Data Center Storage Networking Specialization incorporates the
latest Cisco director class Fibre Channel product family training
curriculum to train and enable channel partners to deploy and support
intelligent SAN solutions.
-- Cisco is also in initial phase of development on a Data Center
Application Networking Specialization designed to build partner
competencies around fast growing application delivery network technologies
such as the Cisco Application Content Engine (ACE).
Together, the data center specializations will provide channel partners
with enhanced technical competencies and a road map for building a robust
data center practice.
Additional information and resources on the Cisco data center vision and
products announced today can be found at
http://newsroom.cisco.com/networkersUS/2007/
About Networkers at Cisco Live
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into the premier event for the IT and communications industry. Continuing
to bring together Cisco customers across all business segments and
industries with its popular Networkers Conference, Cisco is expanding to
new audiences and adding new content that presents its technology
direction, new products and customer best practices. Networkers at Cisco
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