Cisco is expanding its hybrid coud offering by adding Microsoft Azure Stack into Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) Solutions portfolio. Azure stack will integrated and validated onto Cisco UCS to enable enables organizations to deliver Microsoft Azure services from their on-premises data center.
The joint Cisco and Microsoft solution provides the tools for enterprises to grow and modernize their applications in a highly flexible and scalable hybrid cloud environment.
As businesses evolve in response to changing market dynamics, they look for a simple-to-manage hybrid cloud solution that is intelligent and flexible enough to optimize resources and scale on demand, while retaining on-premises benefits, said Cisco.
Service providers can deliver Azure infrastructure as-a-service (Iaas) and platform-as-a-service (Paas). Builds on the industry leading fabric-based UCS architecture featuring high-performance networking with the versatile Cisco Virtual Interface Card optimized for Azure Stack. It also enables simplified management and control that provides a single pane of glass for managing all elements of compute and networking through policy-based templates, reducing the total cost of ownership for joint customers.
Liz Centoni, SVP and General Manager, Computing Systems Product Group, Cisco
Cisco and Microsoft are coming together to offer a hybrid cloud solution built on the power of UCS and Microsoft Azure. Through our joint engineering efforts, application developers and IT managers will have a turnkey solution that is easy to deploy, manage and scale.
Mike Neil. Corporate VP, Azure Infrastructure & Management, Microsoft
Microsoft Azure Stack provides services and application programming interfaces (APIs) compatible with the Azure public cloud, allowing developers to do their best work while giving them the agility to deploy their applications to public, private or hosted clouds.
