11 March 2010
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What's the big deal about data center virtualization architecture?
By Victor Ng | Feb 4, 2010
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Last week, NetApp – together with partners Cisco and VMware – introduced a new design architecture for data centers, dubbed the industry’s first end-to-end secure multi-tenancy design.
Many in the industry are also asking: “What is the difference between this alliance and another that was announced just a couple of months ago?” – referring to the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition formed by EMC, Cisco and VMware in November 2009.
While the two announcements share similar goals – the transformation of the data center through virtualization – there seems to be a fundamental difference. At least, according to NetApp...
According to NetApp, the trilateral collaboration between Cisco, NetApp and VMware provides enterprises with a validated architecture for building virtualized data centers. There is no pre-configured or pre-integrated package on offer. Instead, the thrust of the trilateral collaboration is to provide customers with a solution that can integrate virtualized servers, storage and networking, while addressing their concerns about data privacy and security.
The solution is, in a nutshell, one that helps simplify virtualized data center architectures and accelerates the adoption of internal and external clouds.
NetApp claims that the secure multi-tenancy design architecture helps customers overcome the main challenge they face in their existing environment – how to ensure data privacy and security in all layers of the data center. Born from many months of testing and validation by Cisco, NetApp and VMware, the secure multi-tenancy design architecture offers a solution that isolates different clients, business units, departments or security zones across the computing, networking, storage and management layers of a unified architecture.
The three parties have also worked out a comprehensive framework to provide global joint support for every deployment of the secure multi-tenancy architecture. Calling on any one party of this Cooperative Support Model should mean that you will never be redirected when you log a call. Instead, Cisco, NetApp and VMware will work together to resolve issues behind the scenes so that all you get is a comprehensive product and technology support for your architecture.
For an Asia Pacific perspective of the collaboration, watch and hear from regional executives from Cisco, NetApp and VMware in this video:
