Cisco has announced data center technology innovations in three key areas: networking, hyperconverged infrastructure, and hybrid cloud orchestration which will enable application-centric hybrid cloud deployments.
Cisco also unveiled Cisco HyperFlex Systems, built on Cisco’s UCS compute platform, which brings a new architectural approach to hyperconverged infrastructure, and features data management services such as rapid clones and non-intrusive snapshots with always-on inline deduplication and inline compression, yielding up to 80% reduction in the data footprint.
In addition, Cisco announced its intent to acquire CliQr Technologies Inc. The CliQr platform ties business applications to heterogeneous data center infrastructure, running across bare-metal, containers and virtualized environments.
Nexus Switches and Software
Cisco’s ASIC innovations power its next generation switches, enabling customers for the first time to transition to 25/50/100Gbps at the cost and density of today’s 10/40GGbps networks, with an increase of up to 10 times bandwidth.
The new Nexus 9000 switches deliverperformance for 100Gbps, with 25 percent more non-blocking performance, at 50 percent the cost of comparable solutions, plus greater reliability and lower power. It also delivers real time network telemetry at 100G wire rate, enabling network security with pervasive NetFlow and fabric wide troubleshooting.
The switches also delivers cloud services with adaptive capacity and congestion control, allowing customers to support lossless traffic for IP storage, hyperconverged and converged infrastructure on a single unified fabric that enables application completion times 50 percent faster than traditional competitive platforms.
In addition, Cisco is announcing software enhancements that enable ACI support for Cisco Nexus 7000 switches, protecting customer technology investments in the most common deployment scenarios.
Meanwhile, the new Cisco Nexus 3000 data center switchesdeliver 25/50/100Gbps.
Automation with Cisco Nexus Fabric Manager
Also introduced is the new Cisco Nexus Fabric Manager which automates the complete fabric lifecycle management with a simple point-and-click web interface, and offers automated configuration snapshots and rollbacks. Nexus Fabric Manager builds and self-manages a VXLAN-based fabric, dynamically configuring switches based on simplified user-based actions. An IT manager can fully deploy a VXLAN-based fabric in just three steps, complete with zero touch provisioning, and can upgrade all fabric switches to a new software release in only four mouse clicks.