Cisco Delivers Containerized Data Center

Transportable Data Center Takes Advantage of Network Intelligence to Offer Greater Efficiency, Scalability and Agility to Meet Business and Government Requirements

SAN JOSE, Calif. – May 2, 2011 – Cisco today unveiled the Cisco® Containerized Data Center to address the evolving computing and networking needs of both public and private sector organizations.  Designed and manufactured in the United States, the Cisco Containerized Data Center is a modular data center solution in a weatherized ISO container that offers an open architecture and transportable platform coupled with a unique management platform for cost-effective data center deployments. Designed to help meet the unique needs of government and commercial organizations for mobile rapid deployment, disaster recovery, support in remote areas, and better cost utilization, the Cisco Containerized Data Center offers efficient continuity of operations, increased energy efficiency, increased power density and reduced risk.

According to a recent report from Pike Research, global investment in energy-efficient data center technologies is set to reach 28 percent of the $150 billion data center infrastructure market by 2015. Designed to efficiently use power in meeting cooling and serviceability requirements, the Cisco Containerized Data Center extends the capabilities of traditional brick-and-mortar data centers, including a more energy-efficient platform that lowers operating expenses and decreases the environmental impact.

Cisco has teamed with a diverse number of industry-leading technology companies to deliver a complete modular data center solution. Cisco is working with technology partners such as VMware, EMC and NetApp to deliver cloud computing, storage, virtualization and Cisco data center capabilities based on the Cisco Unified Computing System^TM. Master system integration partners such as Johnson Controls, Inc., in conjunction with Cisco channel partners, deliver Cisco equipment and integration services that enable modular data center solution deployment.

News Facts:

• The Cisco Containerized Data Center takes advantage of the Cisco Data Center Business Advantage framework, which includes Cisco Unified Computing, Unified Fabric and Unified Network Services to optimize flexibility, agility and ease of use. The Cisco Data Center Business Advantage, with its fabric-based infrastructure approach, transforms today’s data center from separate silos (servers, storage, networks, Layer 4-7 switching services, security and so on) into a single integrated infrastructure with a set of shared resources and a consolidated management model.
• A key element of the Cisco Containerized Data Center is the Cisco Data Center Operations 360 management system, which offers comprehensive information technology capacity planning and deployment support, real-time monitoring, historical reporting and trending, and space and environmental analytics. Cisco Data Center Operations 360 is fully extensible with user-defined attributes, monitors and architectural layout rules.
• Unlike many other containerized data centers, the Cisco Containerized Data Center does not rely on proprietary IT platforms. With its open platform, the Cisco Containerized Data Center is easy for organizations to quickly integrate into existing environments.
• Delivering more cost-effective deployments, the Cisco Containerized Data Center can take as few as 12 weeks to deploy from the moment a customer recognizes the need until it is tested, shipped and online, and it is flexible enough to be placed in harsh outside or inside environments.
• The Cisco Containerized Data Center’s energy-efficiency platform can yield a substantially lower power usage effectiveness (PUE), less than 1.25 as opposed to 1.6 to 3.0 for other data center solutions.
• Cisco offers customers pre-sales support to address customer needs and architect a customized solution, advanced services to complete project management requirements, and a robust partner community with the skill set for data center support and Cisco or third-party integration of equipment.

Supporting Quotes:

• Mark Weber, president of U.S. Public Sector, NetApp, said:

“Many of our federal government customers find value in moving from fixed facilities to a modular alternative that can be transported, redeployed, and easily modified to suit changing data center needs in the field. With NetApp® as its storage infrastructure, the Cisco Containerized Data Center is an ideal solution for organizations requiring a flexible, efficient, rapidly deployable modular solution that helps optimize resources, reduce complexity, control IT costs, and most importantly, maintain a high level of service delivery.”

• Jason Schafer, senior datacenter analyst, Tier1 Research, said:

“Data centers are undergoing a dramatic transformation. They need to become more energy efficient and at the same time faster to deploy in order to keep pace with IT organizations’ customers’ demands and growth. These IT organizations are under increasing pressure to find ways to quickly and affordably deploy reliable, resilient data center environments in multiple locations.”

• Iain Campbell, vice president and general manager, Global Energy and Workplace Solutions, Johnson Controls, Inc.,said:

“Johnson Controls has construction, systems integration, maintenance and operations support services in more than 150 countries.  As a Master Integrator for the Cisco Containerized Data Center, Johnson Controls provides extensive data center lifecycle expertise, resources, risk management experience and financial solutions to Cisco, Cisco Clients and Cisco VARS. The ability to scale data center operations rapidly is becoming increasingly critical for customers.  As organizations grow and the need to expand IT infrastructures arises, the Cisco Containerized Data Center meets customer demands for rapid mobile deployment, integrated installation and operations support, better cost utilization, higher efficiencies and quality of service.”

• Mike O’Neill, Vice President Technology Alliances, EMC Corporation, said:

“With more customers requesting a simple, efficient, and cost-effective data center solution capable of rapid deployment and transportability, Cisco Containerized Data Center offers reduced environmental impact, improved efficiency, increased power density and simple integration with current infrastructure. This is a natural extension of our collaboration with Cisco and VMware to provide Vblock converged architectures to meet customers’ requirements for ease of implementation and consumption. EMC information infrastructure products with Cisco UCS and unified fabric will facilitate this evolving approach to data center build out.”

• Brad Boston, senior vice president, Global Government Solutions Group, Cisco, said:

“Cisco is committed to offering innovative data center solutions for our customers.  In conjunction with our extensive partner base, Cisco is able to offer the industry’s most comprehensive standards-based data center portfolio. The Containerized Data Center delivers the scalability, agility, efficiency and productivity that our customers require.”

Supporting Resources

• For more information about the Cisco Containerized Data Center, visit: http://www.cisco.com/go/cdc
• Cisco Capital® offers competitive and flexible financing for Cisco Data Center solutions. For more information, visit: http://www.cisco.com/web/ordering/ciscocapital/index.html
• YouTube: Brad Boston – The Cisco Containerized Data Center

 

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