Cisco has also announced its intention to acquire CliQr Technologies, whose CliQr CloudCenter platform will provide customers with comprehensive and simple application-centric orchestration for private, public, and hybrid clouds.
Cisco HyperFlex Systems
Based on the innovative and proven Cisco UCS computing platform, the new Cisco HyperFlex systems represent the next generation in hyper-converged solutions and expand Cisco's current portfolio of software-defined infrastructure, which includes computing with UCS, networking with ACI and SDN solutions, now extending to storage with HyperFlex.
Its main benefits are:
• Plug-and-play setup in minutes instead of days, with scalable computing, networking, and storage capacity to meet individual needs.
• Data management services such as rapid cloning and imaging with always-available online deduplication and compression, achieving up to 80% space reduction.
• Designed from the ground up to reduce the total cost of ownership by 30% and deliver up to 40% higher performance compared to competing solutions, extending the benefits of hyperconvergence to a wider range of workloads.
Next-generation Nexus switches and software.
The new SDN-ready Nexus 9000 switches deliver:
• 100 Gbps throughput, along with increased reliability and reduced power consumption.
• Real-time telemetry with a 100 Gbps throughput, strengthening network security with NetFlow at any point and facilitating fabric troubleshooting.
• High scalability: speeds of 1/10/25/40/50/100 Gbps, multiplying the number of IP addresses and endpoints by 10 and supporting up to 1 million containers per rack.
• Unique cloud services with adaptive capabilities and congestion control, enabling customers to support lossless traffic for IP storage and converged and hyper-converged infrastructure on a single unified fabric, completing application deployments 50% faster than traditional competing solutions.
Meanwhile, the new Cisco Nexus 3000 data center switch models now include powerful processors with a performance of 25/50/100 Gbps.
In the software section, Cisco has announced several improvements, including ACI support in the Cisco Nexus 7000 switches and the availability of the new Cisco Nexus Fabric Manager, which automates the management of the entire fabric lifecycle with a single click through a web interface, as well as greatly simplifying the configuration of images and recovery points.
expanded ACI ecosystem
also includes several innovative companies such as Infoblox, N3N, Tufin, vArmour, and Veritas, joining other new partners who take advantage of ACI's automation capabilities through open APIs, including Vnomic, Apprenda, One Convergence, DataTorrent, and ScienceLogic.
