Cisco and Ingram Micro have launched Cisco Center for Unified Computing in Singapore, which will provide Ingram Micro’s customers and channel partners with a NxG data centre platform that will accelerate the delivery of new services and with a high degree of security through provisioning and migration support.
The companies said that the new centre, in addition to the Cisco Unified Computing System, has a full suite of other data centre offerings including Hitachi Data Systems and APC power and racking offerings.
In addition, the applications from Microsoft, Symantec and VMware are also configured to allow realistic simulations of a data centre’s environment. The Cisco Center for Unified Computing will help Ingram Micro’s customers and partners resolve their data centre challenges by uniting network, computing and virtualisation resources.
Ingram Micro is the first Cisco distributor in the region to deploy the Cisco Unified Computing System with an ecosystem of partners.
According to Cisco, the Unified Computing System, part of the company’s Data Center 3.0 offerings, which help data centres transition to 10 Gigabit architectures, virtualisation, unified fabric offerings, cloud computing and green operations.
In addition, the new Unified Computing System unites computational, network, storage access and virtualisation resources in a single system. Its computing model uses integrated management and combines a ‘wire once’ unified fabric with a computing platform to optimise virtualisation and provide dynamic resource provisioning for increased business agility.
Irving Tan, managing director for Singapore and Brunei at Cisco, said: "With business requirements increasing and the IT budget staying where it is, organizations are looking for a solution that allows them to quickly scale and reallocate resources when they are not in use.
"The Cisco Center for Unified Computing will be a great showcase of solutions with our partners, and it reaffirms our relationship with Ingram Micro and validates the demand for a platform that unites computation, the network, and virtualisation."