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    Cisco Systems, BMC Co-Building New Platform for Cloud Service Providers

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    Chris Preimesberger
    Published December 6, 2010
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      Networker Cisco Systems and data management provider BMC Software, using their 2009 Unified Computing System partnership as home base, Dec. 6 announced a second strategic alliance to develop a new, generically named cloud system for large-scale, multitenant infrastructures.

      The joint development partnership will use the Integrated Cloud Delivery Platform to target telcos, large and midrange-size independent applications providers, cloud storage providers, high-traffic social media and retail Websites, and a number of other enterprises.

      Cloud computing providers will use the ICDP to deploy services running on an infrastructure that spans a range of data center networks, computing systems, storage and applications.

      The two companies will align their product development roadmaps and technology architectures to offer customers an automated system to deploy cloud services, Cisco Vice President of Service Provider Systems Paul Sanchirico, told eWEEK.

      The ICDP is expected to begin shipping sometime in early 2011, Sanchirico said

      “This alliance combines Cisco’s expertise in networking and computing with BMC’s expertise in cloud management and business service management to offer customers all the elements needed to quickly deploy cloud services,” Sanchirico said.

      Cisco’s UCS at heart of the matter

      The UCS, which is at the heart of these new systems, consists of a proprietary Cisco data center architecture, Cisco-made servers and a set of management software and services from BMC based on Intel’s quad-core Nehalem Xeon processors.

      Cisco partners are providing all hardware and software that aren’t in the networking realm; storage is primarily offered by marketplace enemies EMC and NetApp, which each have long-term partnerships with Cisco.

      “The Cisco-BMC platform provides full-stack provisioning for deployment of services, and you can do this in minutes rather than hours or days, thanks to preconfiguration [meaning drop-down menus and wizards],” Paul Avenant, senior vice president of products and strategy for enterprise service management at BMC, told eWEEK. “Although if you want to use a CLI [command-line programming interface], that’s OK, too.

      “This has complete cloud lifecycle management, including how you request a service to how you configure and provision it.”

      Avenant said it is built upon “new levels of integration” between BMC’s Cloud LifeCycle Management, a full-service cloud-computing software orchestration and management package, and Cisco’s UCS.

      The ICDP will eliminate many of the complex manual steps required to set up and provision a cloud-computing service.

      “Cloud-scale operations require integrated, automated provisioning, management and monitoring across infrastructure and applications,” said Mary Johnston Turner, research director of Enterprise Systems Management for IDC.

      “Cisco and BMC’s collaboration provides service providers and enterprise customers with a pre-integrated option to enable the rapid launch and efficient ongoing support of cloud environments.”

      Chris Preimesberger
      Chris Preimesberger
      https://www.eweek.com/author/cpreimesberger/
      Chris J. Preimesberger is Editor Emeritus of eWEEK. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world (https://richtopia.com/inspirational-people/top-250-business-journalists/) by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile (https://www.eweek.com/cloud/marc-benioff-trend-seer-and-business-socialist/) of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff--the only time he has entered the competition. Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. He has been a stringer for the Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.
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