Industry titans Cisco and Microsoft are forming a tighter bond in the data center with a new joint offering to accelerate hybrid cloud adoption.
Cisco Systems is teaming up with Microsoft in the data center by integrating its Unified Computing System with the Microsoft Azure Stack, enabling partners to deliver Azure services from their on-premise data center.
«Cisco and Microsoft are coming together to offer a hybrid cloud solution built on the power of UCS and Microsoft Azure,» said Liz Centoni, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Computing Systems Product Group, in a statement. «Application developers and IT managers will have a turnkey solution that is easy to deploy, manage and scale. »
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The combination of Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform with Cisco UCS into an integrated system designed specifically for cloud workloads will give customers full control over how they manage security and performance.
Partners can tap into a new recurring revenue opportunity by delivering Cisco UCS along with Azure’s Infrastructure as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service. The offering also provides a single pane of glass for managing all elements of compute and networking through policy-based templates that reduce the total cost of ownership for joint customers, according to Cisco, San Jose, Calif.
