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Realise the true value of cloud computing with Cisco and Data^#3

Cloud computing offers the opportunity to dynamically scale IT resources and make applications and services easier than ever to access. Cisco and Data^#3 can help you build, deploy, and use highly secure cloud services by providing:

	Essential infrastructure to help build clouds, including networking, security, data centre and unified computing solutions, systems management and modular cloud elements
	Integrated solutions for deploying fully tested, best-in-class cloud services and applications
	New innovations that broaden the reach and accelerate the use of clouds such as Cisco Cius tablet, Cisco TelePresence and IP phones

Private Cloud Innovations and Key Cloud Architectures to Enhance Your Network

The Cisco Enterprise Private Cloud portfolio offers industry-leading solutions to increase data centre agility and efficiency.

Cisco Data Center Fabric Architecture integrates network, computing, storage, and network services to deliver reliability, interoperability, performance, and service-level agreements (SLAs).

FlexPod: NetApp, Cisco, and VMware have collaborated to create a flexible infrastructure package comprising pre-sized storage, networking and server components.

Together, Cisco and Data^#3 can help you realise the value delivered by cloud computing and accelerate your business growth.

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Cisco and the Cloud
This 11-minute video provides an inside perspective on Cisco's cloud vision and strategy from Lew Tucker, CTO, Cloud Computing. Valuable insights into cloud computing trends and the current and future opportunities offered.

Data^#3 is a Cisco Gold Certified Partner and has an established Cisco Professional Services Practice

WHITEPAPER

Private Cloud – Efficiency and Flexibility to Advance Business Innovation

If you’re expanding your use of virtualisation and evolving IT toward a private cloud, this paper covers predictable challenges you’ll face along the way. Spotlighting customers’ experiences, it outlines the Cisco vision for private cloud computing and a detailed blueprint for how to transition your existing data centre to a private cloud.

DISCUSSION PAPER

Networking and Cloud: An Era of Change

As you deploy cloud infrastructure and operating models in your organisation, the role that networking plays and the impact of these models on your networks may not always be clear. This document discusses the importance of the network to cloud computing, why the network must change, and what Cisco is doing to lead these changes.

PERFORMANCE BRIEF

Cisco UCS C460 M2 Server: Best Cloud Computing Performance Available Anywhere

Cloud computing environments may give users the illusion of having infinite resources, they require physical servers, switches and storage that deliver excellent infrastructure and virtualisation performance along with massive scalability. This brief outlines results of VMware VMmark benchmarking of the Cisco UCS C460 M2 High-Performance Rack-Mount Server.