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Wednesday, 6 August 2014

Cisco-Microsoft pact to free user lock-in

In July announced networks giant Cisco, a three-year contract with known key Microsoft programs to data centers at the Conference of the pair of the second in Washington DC.The two companies an agreement before, integrate modernize their systems to the installation times for cloud-based IT reduce systems.They also bundled in sales, technical and marketing resources.


In the first year, the company will focus on six countries - USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Australia and international expansion to follow.Initially efforts on customer migration from Windows 2003 to Windows 2012 R2 concentrate on the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS).

Cisco and Microsoft are also planning an integrated systems for SQLServer 2014.The problems cloud solutions is to create that buyers face a dilemma as Schmidt.They can get the instant gratification of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure but hostage to a potentially costly proprietary lock-in, or trying to build their own cloud services, it takes months for disposal.

By eliminating the complexity, Cisco and Microsoft customers want an open system that gives long-term choice, without the lengthy installation process.Cisco wants to streamline so that the time to get your service is just down. It can take six weeks project manager the infrastructure for a new application to get as prompted by the respective heads, provide a lot of computer, storage and network, Schmidt said.

By simplifying, through pre-integration and automation, we can get to a question from hours.Schmidt, the new open architecture says customers are up to 40% of the current costs.Central automatic provisioning of storage resources is the concept of infrastructure -centric applications (API) that each application has autonomy and can use the funds they need from the cloud (automatically, whether private, public or application hybrid.The is now the king said Schmidt.

The other important aspect of the Cisco-Microsoft pact is to eliminate open obstacles to the free movement of resources through its commitment to standards and open architecture, Schmidt.If you a customer of Amazon EC2 are the ones proprietary APIs (Application Programming to keep interfaces) closed to customers in their data centers.With Azure Hyper-V provides the mechanism to restrict the movement of the clients and thus their freedom of movement is not perfectly preserved freedom choice.Without liquidity and buying decisions are disabled, so that the benefits of a free market never,Schmidt said.

Cisco open, interoperable cloud pact with Microsoft standards is your strategy to offer customers the benefits, he said.If you do not move, processes, in response to the availability of resources, then it is not really a cloud service, to meet Schmidt said.But this promise, we must create the right ecosystem.Schmidt said that this is something they intend to add in the next three years.Schmidt by a complete set of open standards with universal compatibility allow customers to do their applications from Amazon and other resources to move into data centers.

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