While the term "virtualization" is used to describe many different aspects of IT, it is widely accepted that server, storage, and network technologies are the core for virtualizing the entire data center.
Cisco provides technologies that enable virtualization within each of these domains and also enable the creation and orchestration of services across server, storage, and network resources:
Storage Virtualization
The SAN can provide a scalable and robust platform for virtualizing storage. In collaboration with partners, Cisco offers network-hosted storage virtualization, which creates an abstraction layer between hosts and storage devices so that IT can achieve much higher levels of storage utilization, on-demand provisioning, and improved data availability and security.
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Network Virtualization
Network virtualization is expanding to deploy truly isolated network and service instances that support virtualized hosting environments regardless of the physical platform. By converging multiple virtual networks and hosted network services, Cisco provides network virtualization solutions that allow IT to dynamically create isolated, secure application environments.
Service Orchestration
The growth of virtualization in general, and the proliferation of virtual machines in particular, are creating some new operational challenges such as:
- Inability to quickly provision new applications
- Little flexibility to keep pace with increasingly dynamic business requirements
- Proliferation and low utilization of resources
Cisco VFrame Data Center enables the coordinated provisioning and reuse of physical and virtualized computing, storage, and network resources from shared pools, using the network to help ensure that applications are dynamically supported throughout the infrastructure.
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