Investment in Joint Sales, Engineering and Marketing Resources to Accelerate Integrated Solutions for Enterprise and Service Provider Data Centers
WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwired - Jul 15, 2014) - Today at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Cisco (
Building on a rich history of solution development, Cisco and Microsoft will both invest in sales, marketing and engineering resources to drive global alignment, while delivering deeper technology integration across cloud and data center markets. The companies will focus on integrating market leading technologies, including Cisco Unified Computing System™ (UCS), Cisco Nexus® switching and Microsoft Cloud OS solutions including Windows Server, System Center, SQL Server and Microsoft Azure.
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Executive Quotes:
Frank Palumbo, Senior Vice President, Global Data Center and Virtualization Sales, Cisco
"From innovative technologies and global brands to specialized channel partners, Cisco and Microsoft have the ingredients to transform the traditional data center. Now we're expanding our long-standing technical partnership with Microsoft with an aggressive global go-to-market and sales initiative. By providing our customers and partners with greater sales alignment and even deeper technology integration we will help them transform their data centers and accelerate the journey to the cloud."
Stephen Boyle, Vice President, Worldwide Enterprise & Partners Group, Microsoft
"Enterprise customers worldwide are betting on Microsoft and Cisco to realize the benefits of our combined cloud and datacenter technologies. Now, together, we're strengthening our joint efforts to help customers move faster, reduce costs and deliver powerful new applications and services for their businesses."
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