BARCELONA, SPAIN--(Marketwire - January 27, 2009) - Cisco Networkers 2009 -- Cisco (
NASDAQ:
CSCO) today announced that it is working with service providers to realize
the Cisco®
Data Center 3.0 vision and help develop
next-generation virtualized data centers achieve greater operational and
energy efficiency. Terremark, StrataScale and The Planet are deploying
new Cisco
Data Center 3.0 technologies, including the
Cisco Nexus 5000 and 7000 Series Switches, to deliver
leading-edge data center managed services to customers.
Facts:
- Terremark, StrataScale, The Planet, and other service
providers have selected the Cisco Nexus 5000 and 7000 platforms to deliver
high-performing, highly secure, flexible and resilient data center managed
services to enterprise customers. New services include cloud computing,
virtualization, managed hosted and self-directed server support,
co-location, and networked data center infrastructure for the on-demand
enterprise.
- The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series offers modular switches with zero service
loss architecture, and meets Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet needs
as well as future unified fabric requirements. The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
is a rack switch delivering high-performance, low-latency 10 Gigabit
Ethernet, Data Center Ethernet (DCE), and Fibre Channel over
Ethernet (FCoE). Introduced today are the Cisco Nexus 7018, Cisco Nexus
5010, and Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extender, joining the Nexus
Family of switches specifically designed for the stringent requirements of
next-generation data centers. Cisco Nexus technology helps customers to
scale cost-effectively while improving energy and resource efficiency, and
supports the transition to 10 Gigabit Ethernet and a unified fabric.
- Comprising the broadest set of networking data center solutions in the
industry, Cisco's Data Center 3.0 architecture provides a framework for
reliable, highly secure, responsive and green data centers.
Customer Profiles and Quotes
Terremark: Cisco Nexus 5000 and 7000 Enable Cloud Computing Managed
Services
Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (
NASDAQ:
TMRK) is a leading global provider of IT
infrastructure services. Terremark has selected the Cisco Nexus 5000 and
7000 platforms to support Terremark's managed hosting and co-location
services, and the Internet exchange point application. In the future,
Nexus will help support additional services, such as the Enterprise Cloud.
Terremark's Enterprise Cloud is powered by an enhanced version of
Terremark's industry-leading Infinistructure™ computing platform and
leverages the company's top-tier data centers and access to massive and
diverse network connectivity. At the center of the Enterprise Cloud is an
easy-to-use Web application that allows customers to dynamically provision
servers from a pre-allocated pool of dedicated computing resources.
"The Cisco Nexus 5000 and 7000 serve as part of the architecture of
Terremark's data center managed services portfolio, and will help us reduce
costs while providing customers greater bandwidth and services. We
selected Nexus because the product is specifically designed to meet the
requirements of data centers, scales to industry-leading 15 terabits per
second, delivers significant performance and density for continuous system
operations, and will support emerging protocols to prepare for migration to
a unified fabric in the data center. We've also been beta testing Cisco's
newly announced 48-port blade for the Nexus 7000, which we are evaluating
for deployment to support our Internet exchange point application."
Bill Williams, senior IP architect, Terremark Worldwide
StrataScale: Cisco Nexus 7000 Delivering 100 Percent Uptime Managed
Hosting Service
StrataScale, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of RagingWire Enterprise
Solutions, Inc. StrataScale recently launched
IronScale(SM), a fully
automated managed hosting service that allows customers to provision and
repurpose resources such as dedicated servers, network services, and
storage
on-demand in real-time. For the network infrastructure that underpins
IronScale, StrataScale selected the Cisco Nexus 7000. Because system
availability is critical to service providers, and IronScale features a 100
percent uptime service-level agreement, the high-availability
characteristics of the Cisco Nexus 7000 are especially valuable.
"We chose the Cisco Nexus 7000 to anchor the network core for our IronScale
automated managed hosting solution. With requirements to support
bandwidth-intensive applications across a multi-10 Gigabit Ethernet network
core, we found the Cisco Nexus 7000 would meet client demands and provide
scalability for the future. The Cisco Nexus 7000 delivers unparalleled 10
Gigabit Ethernet port density, reliability, and performance that enable our
IronScale environment to stay on the cutting edge."
Denoid Tucker, senior director of engineering, StrataScale, Inc.
The Planet: Nexus 5000 Enables High-Performance, Cost-Efficient Data
Center Architecture
The Planet is a worldwide leader in IT hosting with 25,000 customers and
hosting more than 14.5 million Web sites. The company has selected the
Cisco Nexus 5000 for its existing data centers and plans to adopt the
technology for its new environmentally friendly 86,000-square-foot
data center
in the Dallas suburb of Plano, Texas. The facility will accommodate
expansion of the company's highly regarded
co-location services, along
with its popular private racks and Planet Northstar
managed hosting
services. The new operation -- the company's seventh data center -- will
bring its total data center raised-floor footprint to 214,500 square feet.
The new data center is scheduled to open in May 2009 and will meet the same
SAS 70 Type
II qualifications of the company's existing six facilities.
"After reviewing technologies, we selected the Nexus 5000 for its
high-performance switch fabric capabilities and its ability to provide
significant capital expenditures savings. Using the Cisco Nexus 5000 as a
foundation, and with Cisco's Data Center expertise, we've developed a more
efficient and future-proofed 10 Gigabit Ethernet data center architecture
that will serve as a model as we expand our facilities and data center
managed service offerings. With the Nexus 5000, we cost-effectively
upgraded to 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and decreased bandwidth cost per server by
30 percent."
William Charnock, vice president of technology, The Planet
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