Simplify operations, reduce costs, and achieve business agility.
Easily Integrate, Scale, and Manage Solutions
Cisco Unified Data Center solutions reduce costs, deliver superior scalability, are easy to manage, and simplify operations.
DEFINITION DATA CENTER
A data center (sometimes spelled datacenter) is a centralized repository, either physical orvirtual, for the storage, management, and dissemination of data and information organized around a particular body of knowledge or pertaining to a particular business.
The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), for example, is a public data center that maintains the world's largest archive of weather information. A private data center may exist within an organization's facilities or may be maintained as a specialized facility. According to Carrie Higbie, of Global Network Applications, every organization has a data center, although it might be referred to as a server room or even a computer closet.
In that sense, data center may be synonymous with network operations center (NOC), a restricted access area containing automated systems that constantly monitor server activity, Web traffic, and network performance.
Virtualizing the Desktop
Reduce costs and establish a consistent user experience across devices.
Why Cisco and VMWare?
Cisco and VMWare together form a cohesive integration of the fastest-growing blade computing solution from Cisco and the most widely adopted vSphere hypervisor from VMware - combined with VMware View.
This solution delivers a virtual workspace-optimized infrastructure that speeds desktop delivery and increases security. It improves desktop availability and user experience, both online and offline, without compromising control.
Cisco VXI with VMware VIew benefit IT operations by :
- Simplifying deployment and accelerating time to productivity with streamlined the data center infrastructure.
- Securing and improving protection of data center infrastructure and assets.
- Scaling to support more desktops per server with predictable performance.
- Reducing costs with accelerated ROI, improved deployment speed, and sustained investment protection.
DEFINITION DATA CENTER SERVICES
Data center services is a collective term for the supporting components necessary for the proper operation of a repository for storage, management and dissemination of data organized around a body of knowledge or pertaining to an enterprise. As such, data centerservices can involve hardware, software, processes and personnel.
Examples of data center services include :
- Hardware installation and maintenance
- Managed power distribution
- Backup power systems
- Data backup and archiving
- Managed load balancing
- Controlled Internet access
- Managed e-mail and messaging
- Managed user authentication and authorization
- Diverse firewalls and anti-malware programs
- Managed outsourcing
- Managed business continuance
- Continuous, efficient technical support.
Why Cisco and Citrix
Give your IT organization the efficiency, scalability, and security required for successful virtual desktop deployments. Cisco Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI) solutions combined with industry-leading Citrix XenDesktop software accelerate desktop virtualization adoption and provide the foundation for the next-generation virtual workspace.
These integrated and validated solutions from Cisco and Citrix help IT :
- Streamline end-user services
- Secure mission-critical data
- Enable business agility
- Provide a superior desktop virtualization and communications experience
Cisco UCS and Desktop Virtualization
Delivered as a core building block of Cisco VXI, theCisco Unified Computing System (UCS) is ideally suited for hosting desktop virtualization by providing :
- Simplified operations for greater agility
- Massive modular scalability
- Lower operations and infrastructure costs
- Superior deterministic performance
