Dell and Cisco have expanded on an existing partnership in a bid to help customers more easily manage datacentre infrastructures in a virtual environment.
Announced at the Cisco Networkers 2009 conference in Barcelona, the additions to the Solution Technology Integrator agreement will see Dell add Cisco’s Nexus 5020 switches to its PowerEdge server and EqualLogic, PowerVault and Dell/EMC storage systems.
The combined platform is designed to help customers simplify the management of next-generation datacentres by pooling storage and computing resources over a unified networking fabric. This consolidates local area network, storage area network (SAN) and server cluster network environments into a single high-speed 10Gb Ethernet fabric that supports protocols such as Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and iSCSI.
It will be interesting to see what innovations and new products or services Dell and Cisco can bring, not only to the enterprise, the small/medium business sectors. Anything they can do to aid virtualization management and reslience has to be a good thing, I’ll need to check it out.
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