Cisco Systems, slogging through a
relatively tough time in its 20-year history, is putting its troubles aside and
focusing on launching a flock of new products, mostly co-delivered with host
VMware Aug. 30 at VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas.
The world's largest networking company
has endured layoffs, product cutbacks and major strategy changes during the
last 12 months as it looks to expand into other markets.
Its Unified Computing System server and
preconfigured vBlock cloud
systems, built in partnership with EMC, VMware and BMC, have been
selling fairly well. The company is still the No. 1 provider of enterprise
routers and switches, but it is quite aware it needs to succeed in new areas to
continue to grow.
Soni Jiandani, senior vice president of
Cisco's Server Access and Virtualization Technology Group, said the company is
highlighting a major new virtual networking technology, which will be Cisco's
biggest news at VMworld 2011.
The new software is available in the Cisco
Nexus 1000V, which enables customers to easily create virtual networks that
scale to support thousands of virtual machines while increasing application
performance and security in multitenant private, public and hybrid cloud
infrastructures, Jiandani said.
At booth 700, the company also will
demonstrate a series of new Cisco and VMware joint cloud solutions that
include:
- Unified Computing System
advancements for cloud infrastructures;
- Nexus 1000V virtual switching
solutions that support VMware vSphere 5 and VMware vCloud Director 1.5;
- Cloud security capabilities to
better protect multitenant data centers and cloud environments;
- Cloud security capabilities
based on Cisco's ASA firewall technology to better protect multitenant
data centers and cloud environments; and
- Unspecified new scalable and
media rich desktop virtualization solutions.
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