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Cisco Introduces CloudVerse, framework to Build, Manage and Connect Clouds
Cisco today introduces Cisco CloudVerse, a framework that combines the foundational
elements needed to enable organizations to build, manage and connect public,
private and hybrid clouds. Cisco CloudVerse combines these key cloud elements
– Unified Data Center, Cloud Intelligent Network, and Cloud Applications
and Services – enabling businesses to realize all of the benefits of clouds:
improved agility, better economics, enhanced security and a dynamic, assured
experience.
The Cisco Cloud Index, issued last week, forecasts how dramatically clouds are
transforming business IT and consumer services. The study predicts that
over 50 percent of computing workloads in data centers will be cloud-based by
2014, and that global cloud traffic will grow over 12 times by 2015, to 1.6
zettabytes per year – the equivalent of over four days of business-class
video for every person on earth. The study suggests that the explosive
growth in clouds requires advanced capabilities that allow the data center and
network to work together to support end-to-end cloud application delivery.
Today, most cloud technologies exist in silos, preventing an efficient, integrated
management approach. By integrating the three foundational cloud elements
– the Cisco Unified Data Center with the Cisco Intelligent Network to enable
Cloud Applications and Services – CloudVerse delivers a business-class
cloud experience within the cloud, between clouds, and beyond the cloud to the
end user.
A large number of enterprises, service providers, and governments are in the
process of adopting Cisco CloudVerse as the foundation of their cloud strategies,
including ACS, a Xerox Company; Fujitsu; NWN; LinkedIn; Orange Business Services;
Qualcomm; Silicon Valley Bank; Telecom Italia; Telefónica S.A.; Telstra;
and Terremark, a Verizon Company. Today over 70% of leading cloud providers
are using Cisco CloudVerse on their journey to the Cloud.
Cisco has introduced several new solutions within the three core elements of
CloudVerse:
- Unified Data Center changes the economics of cloud infrastructure
by providing a fabric-based platform automating the “as-a-service”
model across physical and virtual environments, and designed to scale with
business demands by flexibly allocating resources within and between data
centers using unified computing and unified fabric. Cisco is also adding new
Unified Management capabilities:
- Cisco Intelligent Automation for the Cloud is designed
to provide automated provisioning and management of data center resources
for the delivery of cloud services within and between data centers.
- Cisco Network Services Manager is designed to automatically
create, deploy and modify physical and virtual networking resources on demand.
- Cloud Intelligent Network provides a consistent and highly
secure user experience wherever the user is located and across the multiple
clouds involved in delivering an application or service. Cisco now adds new
“Cloud-to-Cloud Connect” capabilities:
- “Cloud-to-Cloud Connect,” featuring the Cisco
Network Positioning System on the ASR 1000 and 9000 Series Aggregation Services
Routers in 2012, will enable dynamic resource identification, allocation and
optimization between data centers and clouds.
- Cloud Applications and Services enable “as a service”
delivery of both Cisco and third-party cloud applications. Several new
capabilities are being added to Cisco’s Hosted Collaboration Solution
(HCS)
- Private Cloud HCS empowers enterprises to build their
own collaboration cloud using Cisco’s validated and tested solution and
full management capabilities.
- Mobile HCS provides mobile service providers with an easy
and cost-effective way to offer collaboration from the cloud, thus extending
services from “fixed” devices to mobile phones. For example, providers
can virtually connect thousands of mobile users at a company with single-number
reach, or enable customers to transition a call from a desk phone to a mobile
phone while the call is in progress.
- Customer Collaboration makes contact center capabilities
more affordable and accessible by adding Cisco Customer Collaboration offerings
to HCS. These offerings are available on a limited basis now and targeted
for general availability in 2012.
- Cisco is supporting CloudVerse with new cloud enablement
services, which combine Cisco’s professional and technical services expertise
with those of a broad ecosystem of partners, allowing organizations to accelerate
their cloud success and realize the full potential of cloud.
“Until now cloud technology resided in silos, making it harder to
build and manage clouds, and to interconnect multiple clouds, posing critical
challenges for many organizations,” said Padmasree Warrior, Cisco senior
vice president of engineering and chief technology officer. “Cisco
uniquely enables the world of many clouds – connecting people, communities
and organizations with a business-class cloud user experience for the next-generation
Internet. We are very pleased that many of the world’s leading businesses
and service providers are adopting CloudVerse as the foundation of their cloud
strategies, and we look forward to partnering closely with them on their journey
to a world of many clouds.”
Rajesh Rege, Senior Vice-President for Data Centre, Virtualization and Cloud
Business, Cisco India and SAARC said “We are witnessing a paradigm shift
in computing with the emergence of cloud. Virtually every business sector in
India is betting big on cloud computing because it enables the end-user to only
subscribe to a portion of technology that they want to use. With a portfolio
of cloud-based applications and services for customers to consume directly or
through service providers and channel partners, Cisco CloudVerse will fundamentally
change business models by enabling IT to be delivered as a service”
Cisco CloudVerse offers a compelling economic advantage – helping organizations
offer business IT-as-a-service and dynamic SMB/consumer services. Moving
from a traditional virtualized data center to a CloudVerse cloud can reduce
IT total cost of ownership (TCO – opex and capex) by up to 50 percent and
reduce the time to offer new Cloud services from weeks to minutes.
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