IDGNS: Can you update me on the relationship with EMC, Cisco and VMware to Vblox?
McCool: Let me step back a bit and give the general framework. If we are too many changes from a technology perspective for our industry, cloud computing is moving to see - how people consume technology, it is information that data centers - the need to obtain for many of these converging technologies, and more important. And if we build ourselves, or buy technology partners, the ability to perform in all three dimensions is critical.
Vblox is a part of several areas that we work with both VMware and EMC. The first collaboration with VMware, I would say, was born from customer demand to make virtualization work-based data centers. They saw the promise to use it effectively to reduce costs, but we started working with VMware in areas where it was difficult to scale across the network. The network design would not be moving to virtualization in a big way. And we have a number of investments in technology, which allows large scale between racks and racks of machines, and now the transition from the datacenter to the datacenter. Vblox is a piece of work that we made in this context. It's about consuming it easier to use and the combination of storage, virtualization and service fee - and the network.
So we are on the market and Vblox satisfied with the progress and move them to you. He came on the heels of the introduction of Unified Computing, (we) are very satisfied with the progress. We announced a number of additional customers, such as tasers (the manufacturers of electronic stun devices), is using a video-based application that we think, quite interesting.
IDGNS: It is almost a year since the announcement of UCS (Unified Computing System). What can you tell me about the progress of the UCS front?
McCool: What in the (Taser) and various examples of how the adoption is interesting ... Middle of a market that we had not expected when we came with the product. Companies such as the Taser as an opportunity for many small servers that they had traditionally been buying and consolidating the position of the physical servers that are different and see them together on one physical machine. First, we compared (UCS) to the large data center opportunity, but it is a tremendous value proposition in the field of medium-sized businesses that have never actually seen this phase of consolidation. Save the physical consolidation and then to the right to virtual consolidation.
The other component is the relevance to the provider of data centers where it is in receiving their own services add value to their customers or their customers to add data centers are interested. The client capability of the architecture is really attractive.
And then the third component, I would say that a class of business customers looking to implement network-based technologies and the UCS to provide services within their companies. They can be the ones to multiple data centers in different departments or different functions and see this as a way to emulate had multiple data centers, but almost to consolidate. There are more of them, then we are also suspect.
Some segments of large companies, those which are divisional structure or different segments of their business is (where) Each segment can be run through a separate data center, they see the chance to return in a single data center, but the consistency of the services which they in of multiple data centers.
IDGNS: So, a simple distinction between the servers and manage them to continue, because they almost its own data center?
McCool: Yeah.
IDGNS: Is cooperation with EMC, Cisco goes to all those who in relation to the storage?
McCool: We respond to some changes in the market reflected around the virtualization of storage or networks, or through our own internal development or continue in a partnership model. At the moment we feel very well positioned within the partnership and a wider range of partners, how we can help around the network architecture. We are very focused on the manner of storage and transport as it is over an IP-based network, and what that means for the cloud. Look at what our core business and make the convergence to happen. Of course, we have the first steps of merging Fiber Channel over IP, the complexity of the network for operating a storage area off. The fact that any system or network-attached storage or block-based storage, computation without worrying about has pre-provisioning, network type inherent flexibility. It is an important element when you move to more cloud-based architectures or data center-to-data center architectures.
You must consider the opinion of how we envision the entire problem. We always look back on the challenges around the data center, or to calculate storage environment, our core switching and routing. That's how we approached, we saw the possibilities with VMware and EMC. Where can the core network is the value for these systems? Computing as we looked, we saw that many innovations in the chip level, a large proportion of innovations at the system level, and the real next step in computing platforms, which was how it integrates with the network. This market transition to virtualization and networking technologies, they are really driving
The same approach to storage. Are there opportunities for us to build the network to run it better for our customers, their storage environments to help?
Today we feel that we understand where it goes from a storage perspective, but it is a pretty dynamic market, with virtualization and cloud surrounding this transition. If there are other possibilities, where we focus on the storage environment, you add on the network, which, as we will address.
IDGNS: Two of the biggest competitors, HP and 3Com, to come together. How does Cisco see, and what do you think it will do to the market and your competitive position?
McCool: Here you can many of the features on the market on the network. Many people focus on the company and get in. But I think, thematically, the problem is that everyone says the network is highly relevant to the infrastructure challenge in enterprise and service provider. In a data center, the network is about 15 percent of energy consumption and 15 percent of expenditures. One begins to understand that how to begin the workload so that, over the network. If you do not understand that the technology, and unless you have a uniform, you can not put an important part of the value for the customer. So I started the whole thing created as a reference to the intergalactic Unlike large enterprise stuff. It is a recognition here that the network is more than just a switch or a single component, that a rich portfolio - not just the portfolio of products, but a portfolio of potential network problem.
IDGNS: What Cisco plans to reduce the power consumption in data centers?
McCool: If you still have three or four years ago, people on the power of an individual thing - a part, a product, a telephone, concentrated. People are starting to look more from a system perspective, and often you see that in fact always the strength of a single device can reduce the strength of the entire data center. You can deal with a higher density and higher capacity network equipment, but consume less equipment as a result. You can have multiple adapters, can reduce multiple connections to the network, the power as a new adapter, but some of them running on an adapter. This is the kind of approach we take happen again with fewer devices, which individually a little more power, but a radical change in the stand.
The UCS system has more than a single large server configuration, you have to change radically, however, the energy consumption per virtual machine profile. You can set the number of fields, the number of connections, the number of I / O by combining several of these server systems into a UCS. We have seen that even in our own designs, we have conducted around Nexus and UCS in our data center in Richardson (Texas). We reduced only slightly 4800th Cable
In the past, especially before the downturn, people were building new data centers for capacity planning. Enormous burden in the physical shell. Hundreds of millions of dollars to develop that property. And I used to ask customers if they build? And she would say, yes, we have the time. Attention must now be moved, 'How can I make better use of existing presence that I have? "Our data center was a good example. We needed more capacity. So our design is point in our data center to strengthen the capacity at the same physical size, the same performance space. We went to virtual machines to do, so there was a dramatic increase in the number of virtual machines.
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