Cisco Data Center Business Advantage

On September 14, 2010 Cisco announced an expanded product portfolio and services for data processing centers and the updated strategy in DPC accelerating IT-Innovations, to increase profitability of business and to support the new business models including virtualization of the desktop systems and technology of public and private "cloud" calculations.

Cisco announced the unified network services (Unified Network Services) intended for delivery of any network service in any environment on screens of any size and also improved the unified matrix of switching (Unified Fabric) and the unified environment of calculations (Unified Computing System) to increase flexibility, simplicity and profitability of their implementation. Besides, the company announced the new professional services allowing partners and customers to receive the maximum benefit from investments into standard architecture of DPC of Cisco Data Center Business Advantage.

The combination of the unified network services, the unified environment of calculations and the unified matrix of switching creates a basis for creation of the integrated architecture of Cisco Data Center Business Advantage. This architecture is designed to increase efficiency and flexibility of both traditional DPC, and the virtualized environment of a data processing center. Cisco Data Center Business Advantage helps to establish direct link between information and technology investments and business development due to express delivery of new services, formation of new sources of income, increase in profitability and implementation of new transformational business and information and technology models.

The unified network services of Cisco

The unified network services of Cisco are provided a wide choice of services of physical and virtual type, support flexibility and freedom of choice, provide coordination of rules (politician), simplify transactions and allow to redistribute freely work assignments between different network, computing and "cloud" environments. Are among the first innovative components of the unified services of Cisco:

• The virtual gateway of security (Virtual Security Gateway) - the virtual device for support governed (politician) of information security at the level of virtual machines, on the virtual local area networks (VLAN) and the separated computing infrastructures of a data processing center. The virtual gateway of security solves crucial problems of information security and accomplishment of regulatory requirements in the virtualized data processing centers and multi-user network "clouds" due to more exact management and monitoring taking into account a context of virtual machines. The virtual gateway of security Cisco differs in simplicity of operation, the flexibility of implementation increased by performance and centralized operation. It is implemented as the software product for the Nexus 1000V switches.
• Virtual WAAS (vWAAS) is the virtual device working at VMware ESX/ESXi hypervisors in the unified environment of calculations Cisco UCS™ and on x86 servers. This first solution for optimization of global networks ready to "cloud" calculations accelerating delivery of applications from private and virtual "cloud" infrastructures and maintaining optimal quality of the user services. vWAAS gives to suppliers of "cloud" services the chance to quickly deliver services of optimization of global networks with the minimum reorganization of a network configuration. This solution cuts down the expenses and risks connected with transition to private and virtual private "clouds".

New Nexus 5548 switch: performance improvement and scalabilities of the unified switching matrix

The unified Cisco switching matrix - the major component of the traditional and virtualized data processing centers. It integrates means of storage, network systems of data transmission and operating systems of DPC class, supporting free convergence, scalability and "smart" functionality at reduction of total cost of ownership and acceleration of payback. New components of this solution are listed below.

• The new 48-port Nexus 5548 switch one standard unit high (1RU) doubles density of ports without increase in the sizes of the body and increases profitability. The technology of the unified ports allowing any port to work on Ethernet or Fiber Channel technology in expansion unit increases flexibility of installation, and work at the network layer 3 and support of FabricPath technology increases scalability.
• The combination of the Nexus 5000 switch to the new extender of a matrix of Cisco Nexus Fabric Extender 2224TP creates alternative options of implementation for customers with a low density of servers on a rack. Cisco Nexus 2248TP can be connected to the Nexus 7000 switches, providing to the customer wide channels 100M/1G at simultaneous simplification of management.
• The new Catalyst 6513-E chassis with a capacity of switching more than two terabits per second and the software of Catalyst 4900 with EnergyWise 2.0 and Trust Sec technologies is protected by investments and support work both the traditional, and virtualized data processing centers.

New compact the blade system with the large volume of memory for the unified environment of calculations expands a product family of UCS

The unified environment of calculations Cisco UCS integrates computing and network means, the systems of virtualization and resources of storage with general management that allows to maintain flexible mobility of workload, to optimize scaling of resources and to simplify operation of systems. Together with the unified matrix and the unified environment of calculations Cisco UCS unified by network services represents a fundamental basis of architecture of DPC of Cisco Data Center Business Advantage.

• Were a blade servers of Cisco UCS B230 M1 with Intel® Xeon® 6500/7500 processors a part of the unified environment of calculations. These servers differ in big memory, high performance, big density and compactness (width of the body new a blade server is twice less than standard).
• The new blade server expands freedom of choice for the system architects working with servers in the environment of Cisco UCS. It perfectly is suitable for processing of a large number of transactions at the addressing databases and also for virtualization of servers and the desktop systems.
• During recent cross-validation testings of the unified environment of calculations Cisco UCS nine world records, including two - using new a blade server of Cisco UCS B230 M1 were broken.

New professional and technical services

Cisco announced a number of the new services and opportunities giving to customers the chance to receive the maximum advantage of investments into architecture of DPC of Cisco Data Center Business Advantage due to acceleration of deployment and reduction of risks. New services of Cisco for virtualization of the desktop systems allow customers to build and support perfectly protected scalable infrastructure of virtual machines. The unified environment of calculations Cisco UCS was improved for the purpose of performance improvement of applications and operational management of new Cisco technologies. The solutions Cisco Nexus, WAAS and services of optimization were expanded. Services of testing of performance and estimated tests were their part.