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Business Ready Cloud Networks - June 2011

by Cisco Data Center on Jun 27, 2011

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As customers look to align their IT technology strategy to their growing business demands, many struggle with ways to architect a solution that can integrate with existing applications and architectures, as well as evolve to more dynamic, virtualized, distributed environments.Cisco has worked with customers over the past two decades to help them evolve their architecture to provide maximum flexibility, while allowing the IT organization to manage, control and monitor the end-to-end environment.Cisco’s Data Center architecture allows customers to design two-tier, three-tier, or a mix of both to deliver the performance, availability and control their business needs. Cisco does this in a way that allows customers to migrate at the pace that meets their business needs and uses standards (today or in the near future) to deliver those solutions. This allows customers to make architectural choices that give them the flexibility to grow in the future, and accommodate today and tomorrow’s applications.
For CIOs and IT leaders, the breadth of choices in the Cloud Computing space is growing rapidly. These choices are giving businesses options in how to acquire, build and consume IT services. Cisco is playing a major role in the Cloud Computing evolution by participating in Private Cloud, Hosted Cloud and Cisco Cloud services, all interconnected by an intelligent network that delivers performance, security and availability for the most mission-critical applications. In essence, IT is evolving to provide the technology platform for the business, IT as a Platform. It’s evolving from delivering IT as a Service (internal only) to become a platform to deliver IT services through any means. It must understand application models (Iaas, PaaS, SaaS), API frameworks (EC2, S3, OpenStack, CloudFoundry, vCloud, etc.). IT must become the source within the business to identify how to deliver Business-Ready cloud services, regardless of where the service is geographically delivered from.
Everyone talks about how great cloud computing is for application development, but there is little discussion about how much of a challenge it can be to build a cloud and get the benefits we talked about previously. It is certainly non-trivial to build a scalable cloud with almost full automation and customer self-service. As we stated, Cisco’s strategy is to make this easier by providing fundamental building blocks for building clouds, our Unified Computing System, or UCS. Most clouds today are built up from “pods” which are integrated compute, network, and storage systems. Cisco is leading the industry in this area with our unified computing system, which uses a unified fabric approach towards reducing complexity. Since the UCS manager is driven by a set of software APIs, it easily fits into automated system management making it possible to incrementally add resources without ever having to take the system down.

Business Ready Cloud Networks - June 2011 — Presentation Transcript

Business-Ready Cloud Networks
June 2011
Evolution to Cloud – Driven by Application
Next-Generation
Application
Virtualization
Client-Server
Applications
- Low Latency
- Massive Bandwidth
- Parallel Processing
- Horizontal Traffic Flows
- Network Virtualization
- VM Performance
- VM Security & Policy
- VM Mobility
- VM Automation
- Network Hierarchy
- High Availability
- Application Awareness
- Vertical Traffic Flows
Many Cloud Options
Private Cloud
(Data Center)
Commodity Cloud
Services
Virtual-Private
Cloud Services
Cisco Cloud Services
The Network Makes Cloud Computing Possible
Cloud Building Blocks – Data Center Fabric
Applications
SAN
NAS
Unified Computing System
Network
Unified Network Services
Unified Fabric
Interconnect
DC #2
WAN Edge
Cloud Building Blocks – Network Containers
- Network, Compute and Storage Resources Pre-Integrated into “containers”
- System adds capacity by adding pods
- Each pod is discovered by the system, integrated into the resource pools, and assigned workloads as needed.
Nexus
NAS
NAS
Nexus
Nexus
SAN
SAN
UCS
UCS
Container 1
Container 2
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Business Ready Cloud Networks - June 2011

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