(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IT firms Cisco (www.cisco.com), NetApp (www.netapp.com) and VMware (www.vmware.com) announced on Tuesday they are expanding their long-standing partnership to deliver new design architectures that help customers evolve virtualized data centers to be more efficient, dynamic and secure.
The three companies introduced an end-to-end secure multi-tenancy design architecture that separates IT resources for enhanced security in shared virtual and enterprise cloud environments.
According to the press release, the design architecture “helps enterprise customers, systems integrators and service providers develop internal and external cloud services that isolate clients, business units, departments or security zones for enhanced security across the computing, networking, storage and management layers of a unified infrastructure.”
The secure multi-tenancy design architecture is based on Cisco Nexus Series Switches and the Cisco Unified Computing System, NetApp FAS storage with MultiStore, and VMware vSphere and vShield Zones.
Ultimately, the design architecture improves business agility by helping IT administrators to establish the appropriate quality of service for each resource layer and to deliver consistent service performance levels for the applications in each layer.
As part of their collaboration, Cisco, NetApp and VMware will also offer a cooperative support model for these pretested and validated design architectures to help customers quickly build a unified, virtualized infrastructure.
“It’s clear that a tremendous opportunity exists for Cisco, NetApp and VMware to enable real change in the data center,” says Tom Georgens, president and CEO of NetApp. “Our visions are aligned around the concept of a dynamic data center that will be the foundation of cloud computing and that will enable enterprises, integrators and service providers to deliver IT as a service [ITaaS]. In this scenario, IT becomes a dynamic asset that is more efficient and can better adapt to changing business needs. This new era of IT has stringent infrastructure requirements that our companies are ready to meet today — together.”
Cisco, NetApp and VMware will host a virtual event to discuss how the companies are working together to help customers transform their virtualized data centers with the secure multi-tenancy design architecture.
Customers can also participate in a live Q&A session with technical experts from all three companies. Those individuals interested in registering for the session can do so here.
In the past, all three companies have all individually formed strategic partnerships with other companies to deliver data center solutions.
For instance, Cisco and VMware teamed with EMC in November to form a separate alliance entitled the Virtual Computing Environment Coalition, which is designed to move organizations over to private cloud infrastructures.
