Cisco Unveils New Data Center Innovations To Accelerate Hybrid Cloud Deployments
Next generation data center switches deliver cloud services at cloud scale with cloud economics.
Cisco has announced data center technology innovations in three key areas: networking, hyperconverged infrastructure, and hybrid cloud orchestration which will enable application-centric hybrid cloud deployments. Cisco continues to lead data center innovation with SDN-ready Nexus switches that deliver cloud scale 10/25/40/50/100Gpbs, with up to 10 times performance improvement at industry leading price points. The new switching platforms provide the scale, telemetry, security, and performance needed for distributed containers and microservices, as well as the lossless traffic needed for IP storage and hyperconverged infrastructure. The new switches give Cisco customers a two-year innovation advantage over competitive technology.
Cisco also unveiled Cisco HyperFlex™ Systems, built on Cisco's industry-leading UCS compute platform, which brings a new architectural approach to hyperconverged infrastructure. Cisco HyperFlex Systems simplify policy-based automation across network, compute and storage for the widest set of enterprise applications. Cisco HyperFlex surpasses first generation hyperconverged solutions, which were severely limited in terms of the performance, flexibility, and operational simplicity required by today's IT environment of microservices, containers, new applications and clouds. This expands Cisco's portfolio of complete software-defined infrastructure -- from compute with UCS, network with ACI and SDN solutions, to now HyperFlex for storage.