Cisco
Today's highly mobile workforce, proliferation of devices, data-driven business models, and super-fast network speeds are making limitless collaboration and on-demand information essential to a sustainable business model. To support these requirements, your IT team needs to think differently about how your data centre is designed, operates, and delivers resources.
By taking a holistic, unified approach to design and operations, IT can build and operate a more agile, simplified, and powerful data centre infrastructure, at a lower cost.

Cisco's Unified Data Centre comprises the following components.
- Unified Fabric
The network infrastructure and integrated network services provide high-speed connectivity, high-availability, security, and quality of experience for data centre applications.
- Unified Computing
The system-level computing infrastructure integrates computing, access networking, storage networking, and management of these components into a scalable framework for physical or virtualised applications.
- Unified Management
This automation and lifecycle management framework simplifies deployment and operations within the data centre.
- Integrated Solutions
Cisco Unified Data Centre supports the Cisco Hosted Collaboration solutions. Open standards and APIs allow for integration and management of hardware and software solutions from ecosystem partners, providing data center flexibility.
- Data Center Services
In addition to a full range of data centre product lifecycle services, Cisco and its authorsed Channel Partners offer expert assistance with Data Centre Optimisation, IT Infrastructure Planning and Deployment, Strategic IT and Architecture Services, and Technical Support and Operations Management.

