Virtualised Networks Designed & Installed by Us
Organisations are transforming their businesses with integrated technology from Cisco and VMware. A growing number of customers are using joint private cloud, data centre, and virtual desktop solutions from the two companies to accelerate business transformation and increase IT agility. Around the world and across industries, customers are combining Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) and VMware virtualisation technologies to power a wide variety of business-critical applications.
Real-world outcomes
Choice Hotels International, which franchises thousands of hotels worldwide, built a new data centre infrastructure on Cisco UCS and VMware vSphere, resulting in immediate efficiency gains — migrating hundreds of virtual servers in a fraction of the time it previously took to migrate physical servers, while reducing space, power, and cooling requirements.
Columbia Sportswear, facing an ageing and costly ERP infrastructure amid rapid expansion, moved to a new SAP ERP system underpinned by converged compute from Cisco, storage and data protection from EMC, and server virtualisation from VMware — supporting faster time-to-market while reducing operating costs.
Northrim Bank combined virtualised infrastructure in a central co-location facility with branch infrastructure built on Cisco UCS E-Series Servers and VMware Horizon View, alongside an overhauled wide area network (WAN) — helping drop branch office infrastructure operating costs while speeding system response times and strengthening business continuity.
A winning combination
The combination of Cisco UCS servers with VMware infrastructure provides value, flexibility, and agility to customers of all sizes. Cisco's innovations deliver application performance and policy control for virtualised workloads, while its Unified Computing System incorporates software control of complete server configuration to a degree unique in the industry.
Rich, API-enabled integration between Cisco and VMware enables policy-based provisioning and administration of both physical servers and virtual machines from within VMware software — helping organisations maximise the potential of virtualisation and cloud to transform IT capabilities and improve data centre economics.
About Cisco
Cisco is a worldwide leader in networking, transforming how people connect, communicate, and collaborate.
About VMware
VMware is a leader in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the cloud era, helping customers transform how they build, deliver, and consume information technology resources.