Companies Introduce New Integrated Cloud Delivery Platform to Enable Automation of Large-Scale Cloud Computing Infrastructures
SAN JOSE, CA and HOUSTON, TX--(Marketwire - December 6, 2010) - Cisco (
Key Facts and Highlights:
Alliance Seeks to Deliver Highly Secure, Scalable, Multi-Tenant Cloud Computing
Integrated Cloud Delivery Platform Enables Faster Deployment of New Cloud Services
Supporting Executive Quotes
Bob Beauchamp, chairman and CEO for BMC Software
"As cloud computing evolves from a strategic idea to a business reality, companies are quickly discovering the complexities of deploying and managing cloud solutions in a hybrid data center. BMC's alliance with Cisco will enable our customers with large-scale cloud computing environments to make mission-critical cloud services a practical reality for their demanding businesses and customers. IT organizations can be more nimble, cost-efficient, scalable, and, most importantly, better aligned to the business."
Padmasree Warrior, CTO, senior vice president and general manager, Enterprise, Commercial and Small Business for Cisco
"Cisco and BMC have a common vision for advancing Cloud computing with unified infrastructure combined with seamless management. The Integrated Cloud Delivery Platform enables our customers to deploy end-to-end IT services running on a cloud infrastructure that spans networks, systems, storage and applications."
Supporting Industry Quotes
Jose Luis Gamo, head of Cloud Vertical Business Unit for Telefónica
"Cisco and BMC's Integrated Cloud Delivery Platform gives us the tools for optimizing, provisioning and management of Telefónica Cloud Services, and brings new levels of automation to cloud service delivery. We need such automation levels for responding dynamically and in real-time to the demands of our customers. At the end of the day, the winner is our customer, because these technologies simplify service requests and enhance overall service levels."
Jose Antonio Lopez, global account vice president for Ericsson
"Cisco and BMC have created a major innovation in cloud-based service delivery. The value of their highly secure network container cannot be underestimated. It serves as a key building block that significantly eliminates time consuming manual setup, integration and provisioning times commonly found in large-scale cloud service integration projects, while simultaneously providing the flexibility to respond to an individual customer's preferences with customized service attributes. In this area, Ericsson, acting as prime contractor for the Telefónica cloud computing network, will provide its integration skills in order to align the cloud offering in all the Telefónica regions, which will help Telefónica to reduce costs and improve the time-to-market of the new cloud computing services."
Phil Harris, chief technology officer for Virtual Computing Environment
"VCE is fully supportive of the alliance between Cisco and BMC. Building upon this alliance, VCE will also extend our current relationship with BMC to include full integration of the Integrated Cloud Delivery Platform with the Vblock management platform, Unified Infrastructure Manager (UIM). This will give our customers the ability to utilize VCE's industry-leading Vblock platform, along with BMC's latest development in orchestration and cloud lifecycle services."
Mary Johnston Turner, research director, Enterprise Systems Management for IDC
"Cloud scale operations require integrated, automated provisioning, management and monitoring across infrastructure and applications. Cisco and BMC's collaboration provides service providers and enterprise customers with a pre-integrated option to enable the rapid launch and efficient ongoing support of cloud environments."
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