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Cisco Outlines Plans for Data Center 3.0 By Jennifer LeClaire July 25, 2007 11:16AM Cisco has never set the direction of the data center because the computing infrastructure has been the driving technology there, said Yankee Group analyst Zeus Kerravala. "What you are seeing now is a flip where the network becomes the back plain for the distributed computer," he said. "That's the whole concept of virtualization."   Related Topics Cisco IBM EMC HP Data Center Virtualization Latest News Endeavour Inspected for Damage Autism Risk for Kids of Older Mothers Go Online and You Can Save the Planet In Haiti, Relief Gaps Are Spreading U.S. To Form Climate-Change Agency Cisco Systems began trumpeting its Data Center 3.0 vision on Tuesday, with CEO John Chambers saying he sees a world in which the network becomes the heartbeat of the data center's infrastructure , enabled by virtualization . In short, the Data Center 3.0, as Cisco sees it, entails real-time, dynamic orchestration of infrastructure services from shared pools of virtualized server , storage , and network resources. It also entails optimizing application performance, service levels, efficiency , and collaboration . "Because the network is uniquely positioned to be the platform for the data center, we are investing in innovations to help our customers transform their data centers for improved efficiency and increased business productivity," Chambers said in a statement. Cisco is planning to roll out new products, programs, and capabilities over the next 24 months to help customers realize this new vision. VFrame Data Center At the heart of Cisco's new strategy is the VFrame Data Center (VFrame DC), a platform designed to leverage network intelligence to provision resources together as virtualized services. According to Cisco, this approach can reduce application deployment times, improve overall resource use, and offer greater business agility. VFrame DC includes an open API, and can be integrated with third-party management applications, as well as with server and storage virtualization offerings. With VFrame DC, customers can link their compute, networking , and storage infrastructures as a set of virtualized services, Cisco said. VFrame DC offers a policy engine for automating resource changes in response to infrastructure outages and performance changes. These changes can be controlled by external monitoring systems via integration through VFrame DC's API. Essentially, VFrame DC represents an approach to data center management that is designed to let I.T. admins quickly view all the services configured at the application level to improve troubleshooting and change management. Evolution of the Network (continued...) 1  |  2  |  Next Page >   Tell Us What You Think Your Comment: Also Visit: iPad Info Center Billions of Bytes Mobile Device Now Apple Info Center TopTechWire.com Advertisement  Enterprise Hardware 1.   MS: Windows 7 Doesn't Hurt Battery 2.   IBM Power7 Server Takes on Big Load 3.   Embattled JooJoo Tablet To Ship Soon 4.   IBM Opens Cloud-Focused Data Center 5.   Will Business Users Buy Into the iPad? The iPad's Potential Threat to PCs Could erode sales of netbooks, tablets. Average Rating: IBM Opens Cloud-Focused Data Center Energy efficiency slashes costs in half. Average Rating: Game On: Smartphones Vs. Netbooks Road warrior technology showdown. Average Rating:

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