Cisco, Ingram Micro Launch Asia’s First Unified Computing Center
SINGAPORE – Cisco and Ingram Micro today announced the launch of Asia’s first Cisco Center for Unified Computing in Singapore. The center will provide Ingram Micro’s customers and channel partners with a next-generation data center platform that will accelerate the delivery of new services simply, reliably and with a high degree of security through end-to-end provisioning and migration support. It will also feature technology from APC, CA, Hitachi Data Systems, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Symantec, VMware and other partners.
As the pioneering solution center in the region, the Cisco Center for Unified Computing will be a test bed for Cisco partners to simulate real-life scenarios in a heterogeneous hardware and software application environment. The center provides a risk-free environment for partners to share and address their customers’ data center requirements and challenges. Cisco’s investment with Ingram Micro includes training and additional staff to manage the solution center.
Facts:
- As the first unified computing solution center in Asia, the Cisco Center for Unified Computing, located at the Ingram Micro offices in Singapore’s Kallang district, will be a landmark implementation and the precursor to an expansion of the concept into the rest of Asia.
- Ingram Micro is also the first Cisco distributor in the region to deploy the Cisco Unified Computing System with an ecosystem of partners.
- In addition to the Cisco Unified Computing System, the center has a full suite of other data center solutions, including Hitachi Data Systems and APC power and racking solutions. Applications from Microsoft, Symantec and VMware are also configured to allow realistic simulations of a data center’s environment.
- Data center virtualization has created a market transition in which information technology professionals are trying to reduce costs and increase flexibility. During this transition, the Cisco Center for Unified Computing will help Ingram Micro’s customers and partners resolve their data center challenges by uniting network, computing and virtualization resources.
- The Cisco Unified Computing System streamlines data center resources to reduce the total cost of ownership, scales service delivery to increase business agility, and radically reduces the number of devices requiring setup, management, power, cooling and cabling.
- Globally, more than 900 customers have already adopted the Cisco Unified Computing System.
- The Cisco Unified Computing System is part of the company’s Data Center 3.0 solutions, which help data centers transition to 10 Gigabit architectures, virtualization, unified fabric solutions, cloud computing and green operations.
- Cisco also recently announced planned updates to its Cisco Unified Computing System platform, as well as expansions in its rapidly growing ecosystem of technology partners and developers.
- Ingram Micro is the world’s largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company for the information technology industry worldwide.
About the Cisco Unified Computing System
- The Cisco Unified Computing System unites computational, network, storage access and virtualization resources in a single energy-efficient system that can reduce IT infrastructure costs and complexity, help extend capital assets, and improve business agility well into the future.
- Based on industry standards, the Cisco Unified Computing System is a new computing model that uses integrated management and combines a “wire once” unified fabric with an industry-standard computing platform to optimize virtualization, reduce a data center’s total overall cost, and provide dynamic resource provisioning for increased business agility. The Cisco Unified Computing System:
- Can reduce the total cost of ownership by up to 20 percent in capital expenditures (capex) and up to 30 percent in operational expenditures (opex).
- Improves IT productivity and business agility, provisioning applications in minutes instead of days and shifting the focus from IT maintenance to IT innovation.
- Increases scalability without added complexity; it is managed as a single system, whether it has one or 320 servers with thousands of virtual machines.
- Improves energy efficiency by significantly reducing power and cooling costs.
- Can provide interoperability and investment protection through an industry-standards-based infrastructure.
(Source: Cisco)
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