Cisco accelerating industry shift to Unified Computing

MANILA, Philippines - Cisco recently unveiled an open, best-of-breed ecosystem of partners to stimulate innovation, enhance service delivery, and accelerate the market adoption of Unified Computing, an evolutionary data center architecture which unites computing, network, storage access, and virtualization resources in a single cohesive system.

“Cisco is unleashing the power of virtualization through Unified Computing, the industry’s first unified architecture for the virtualized data center. We’ve built an open ecosystem of industry leaders to help our customers realize the value of this exciting market transition,” said Rob Lloyd, Cisco executive vice president designate for worldwide operations.

Virtualization is bringing about a significant industry transition and exciting market opportunities around the world. 

Cisco is collaborating with industry leaders to help customers navigate this transition to optimize virtualization, reduce overall data center cost, and improve business agility.

Cisco’s open, global partner ecosystem spans a broad spectrum of technology partners, business consulting and systems integration partners, and channel partners. 

With the introduction of the Unified Computing System, Cisco is delivering innovation to the industry through architecture, technology, partnerships, and services.

“Time and again, we’ve seen that orchestrating an open partner ecosystem is the most effective way to successfully drive major market transitions. Through world-class partnerships and collaborative service delivery, Cisco will accelerate the industry evolution to Unified Computing,” said Gary Moore, Cisco senior vice president for advanced services.