Cisco Teams With Microsoft on Go-to-Market Acceleration Initiatives to Drive Worldwide Demand for Integrated Data Center Solutions
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Jul 8, 2013) - Today at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Cisco (
Over the past two years, Cisco and Microsoft have invested significant development resources to integrate best-in-class data center technologies. By combining the innovative Cisco® Unified Data Center architecture with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and System Center 2012, Cisco and Microsoft are helping customers simplify data center operations, boost IT productivity and improve data center economics.
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Padmasree Warrior, chief technology and strategy officer, Cisco
"In the mobile-cloud era IT organizations need an integrated approach, incorporating technology architectures that enable business agility, operational simplicity and improved application performance. Over the last two years Cisco and Microsoft engineering teams have worked diligently to combine our industry-leading technology into integrated data center solutions. Now, we're taking the next step by investing together to rapidly accelerate demand for our private cloud solutions."
Satya Nadella, president, Server & Tools Business, Microsoft
"Microsoft's Cloud OS, built on Windows Server 2012 and Windows Azure, provides a consistent platform that spans our customers data centers, service providers' data centers and Windows Azure. We are excited to work with Cisco to help our joint customers implement proven private and hybrid cloud solutions and improve their data center operations."
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