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Lately, there has been a lot of speculation by the technorati that “something is going on over at Cisco!”  I am sure you have all read the blogs and reports in traditional media asserting that Cisco is going to enter new markets, compete for new business, and build new products.  The answer? Yes, Yes and Yes, of course!

Yes, Cisco is entering new markets.  We view periods of economic uncertainty as the perfect time to challenge the status quo and evolve our business to deliver customer and shareholder value.  Cisco’s success has always been driven by investments in market adjacencies during times that may cause other companies to blink.

Yes, Cisco is innovating around an architectural approach we call “Unified Computing”.  Unified Computing is the advancement toward the next generation data center that links all resources together in a common architecture to reduce the barrier to entry for data center virtualization. In other words, the compute and storage platform is architecturally “unified” with the network and the virtualization platform.  What are the benefits in doing this? Virtualization architectures today are very much “assembly required” islands where the burden of systems integration is on the customer. This increases costs and deployment times while decreasing efficiency. Unified Computing eliminates this manual integration in favor of an integrated architecture and breaks down the silos between compute, virtualization, and connect.

IT architectures are changing – becoming increasingly distributed, utilizing more open standards and striving for automation.  IT has traditionally been very good at automating everything but IT!  Unified Computing and automation at an architectural level can lower operating costs while extending capital assets.

I was reading the Cisco blog the other day, it’s always good to read what the vendors are talking about, and I was interesting to read about ‘Unified Computing’. In future will we see more deployment of clouds, more application centric infrastructures? Could we see the move to virtualization, where it’s the data center that’s virtualized allowing me to failover workloads between geographical locations, where London runs from New York in a BCP scenario/test? Exciting times are ahead, how the vendors can further innovate and empower the end users will depend on their sector, but the more we innovate, the more empowerment we can bring to the end users, the better for the industry and the end user community alike.

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