Cisco and VMware Expand Their Strategic Partnership to Deliver Next Generation Cloud Infrastructures

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Cisco and VMware Expand Their Strategic Partnership to Deliver Next Generation Cloud Infrastructures

Integrated solutions to offer unprecedented scale, security and automation across physical and virtual cloud infrastructures

SAN FRANCISCO – VMworld® – August 27, 2012 – Today Cisco and VMware announced they plan to expand their strategic partnership to include integrated products and solutions aimed at delivering the software defined datacenter. This partnership expansion will be highlighted by an investment in dedicated engineering teams collaborating on deeper integrations across the VMware cloud infrastructure and management stacks and Cisco’s Data Center Networking and Fabric Computing platforms. The companies’ investment in joint dedicated engineering teams will represent a new level of collaboration which will enable the software defined datacenter through unprecedented coupling of virtual and physical infrastructure.
 
Highlights:

• Cisco and VMware will make significant joint engineering investments to develop technology integration initiatives, which will launch a new set of solutions designed to provide customers unprecedented levels of agile compute and network services, workload and workspace mobility,  end-to-end visibility, and ease of troubleshooting across their physical and virtual infrastructures.
• To support customer demand and choice, VMware will integrate the Cisco Nexus 1000V SeriesSwitches with the new VMware vCloud® Suite 5.1, also announced today, and other VMware products.
• Cisco and VMware will develop Cisco Unified Computing System(UCS)-based cloud solutions, which will bundle Cisco virtual networking, virtual services and management such as the Nexus 1000V virtual switch, CSR
• 1000V cloud router, ASA 1000V cloud firewall, virtual WAAS for WAN optimization, and Intelligent Automation for Cloud with VMware vSphere® 5.1, VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 and complementary management offerings.
• Furthering the commitment to mutual customers, Cisco will resell VMware vCloud Suite 5.1, which will feature enhanced interoperability with Cisco Nexus 1000V.
• As part of the companies’ joint vision for the transformation of the workspace in the post-PC era, VMware and Cisco are expanding their joint solutions with Cisco VXI and VMware View to introduce new integrated solutions for SMB and ROBO customers featuring Cisco e-Series UCS servers and VMware View®. 
• Cisco and VMware will also provide Cisco Validated Designs and reference architectures to simplify and accelerate customer implementation of these joint solutions.
• Cisco and VMware joint solutions will be made available for VCE, as well as ecosystem partners,  to help drive customer adoption of its industry-leading converged infrastructure platforms. Cisco and VMware remain strongly committed, along with EMC, to the VCE partnership.

This expanded partnership will leverage Cisco’s history of innovative leadership in networking and systems with VMware’s industry leadership in software-based virtualization and cloud infrastructure.  To date, the partnership has delivered groundbreaking products and solutions including:

• Nexus 1000V – In 2009, VMware and Cisco delivered a distributed virtual switch from Cisco enabling network administrators to simplify network management between their physical and virtual environments. Since its inception, more than 6,000 customers have licensed this joint solution. \
• Cisco UCS – In 2009, Cisco introduced the Unified Computing System (UCS), a new x86 platform that radically simplified the management of compute, storage access, networking and virtualization and is tightly integrated with the VMware vSphere platform, enabling customers to reduce their CAPEX and OPEX as they expand their virtual and cloud infrastructures.
• Converged Infrastructure – Cisco and EMC, together with VMware and with investments from Intel, established the VCE coalition in 2009, spearheading the movement toward converged infrastructure. Customers globally have recognized the value of Vblock™ Infrastructure Platforms in accelerating the migration of enterprise workloads to private and public clouds.   
• Cisco VXI and VMware View – In 2012, Cisco and VMware cooperated to deliver a unified collaboration solution leveraging VMware cloud infrastructure, VMware View and Cisco UCS, Cisco Wide Area Application Services and Unified Communications platforms to enable customers to migrate to a more open, mobile and immersive workspace environment in the post-PC era.

Supporting Quotes:

Rob Lloyd, Executive Vice President, Cisco
“Cisco and VMware have delivered incredible value to customers seeking to accelerate the deployment of private and public clouds. The next-generation datacenter will enable customers to capture the value of VMware cloud infrastructure and management stacks along with the next wave of Cisco innovations in hardware, ASICs, systems and network programmability to deliver unprecedented scalability, security, diagnostics and policy management. As the leader in networking, Cisco looks forward to continuing to lead the industry in partnership with VMware.”

Pat Gelsinger, Incoming Chief Executive Officer, VMware
“The software-defined datacenter will deliver the next leap in software-based datacenter automation across server, storage and networking, but it requires equal hardware and systems-based innovation. We are very excited to further our partnership with Cisco, the industry-leading innovator in networking, as we believe it will bring significant value to our joint customers through the integration of the VMware cloud infrastructure platform with Cisco’s intelligent network fabric.”

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• Learn more about the Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches
• Learn more about Cisco Unified Computing System
• Learn more about the VMware vCloud Suite

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T-Systems’ customers benefit from VMware vCloud® Datacenter Services

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T-Systems’ customers benefit from VMware vCloud® Datacenter Services

Strategic partnership for Cloud Computing
Cost reduction and business agility through standardized services.
Customers can quickly increase their IT capacities in T-Systems’ high-security data centers.
Data privacy and compliance in line with German legislation.

San Francisco, August 27, 2012 - T Systems joins forces with VMware to provide customers with easier, quicker and more manageable access to cloud computing. The companies confirmed their strategic partnership today at VMworld® 2012 in San Francisco announcing VMware vCloud® Datacenter Services from T-Systems. Among the first customers to benefit from the partnership is Europe's number one car marketplace, AutoScout24, and Actum/G2, the Czech digital marketing specialist within the multinational advertising and public relations group WPP.

On average, enterprises have virtualized more than 50 percent of their servers, leading to sizable gains in efficiency and manageability over the past few years. That enterprises are increasingly choosing VMware virtualization and cloud solutions to realize these benefits speaks to the trust that customers place in VMware cloud infrastructure. Service providers play a key role in the promise of cloud to deliver on-demand access to IT capacity on-demand without additional infrastructure investments. The VMware vCloud Datacenter Service to be provided by T-Systems delivers on the hybrid cloud promise, to provide IT infrastructure out of the cloud that has undergone a demanding certification process by VMware. This gives enterprises the confidence to move IT capacity into the cloud easily and without any surprises in terms of portability, compatibility, security, manageability and control. Thus when a customer’s data center has reached its capacity limit, or resources for new projects are needed within minutes, T-Systems provides a familiar solution in a hybrid cloud model. The new service – available internationally - is based on VMware’s award-winning cloud infrastructure suite, including VMware vSphere® and VMware vCloud Director®.

Flexible resources for dynamic markets
Flexible data center resources are essential for companies active in dynamic markets. Involved in the markets of 18 countries, AutoScout24 is the largest online car marketplace Europe-wide. "We require flexible, on-demand IT resources because our markets change every day," explained Joachim Rath, Head of IT Production of AutoScout24, which is part of the Deutsche Telekom group. "And that's why we appreciate the T-Systems offering based on VMware cloud infrastructure that will speed our ability to shift computing workloads between private and public clouds efficiently and effectively."
Another customer to use VMware vCloud technology is Actum/G2, a digital marketing specialist in the Czech Republic. It is part of the WPP group, one of the largest advertising and public relations companies worldwide. The Prague-based agency provides customers with websites and apps from the cloud while T-Systems supplies the necessary infrastructure on-demand, highly available and secure.

Into the cloud at the push of a button
"Put simply, enterprises will be able to move the contents of their servers to the T-Systems cloud at the push of a button," said Jürgen Urbanski, Cloud expert at T-Systems and a member of Deutsche Telekom’s Cloud Leadership Team. "Internally, we have been using proven VMware technologies for many years. Therefore, we are delighted to announce that we’ll be able to deliver VMware vCloud Datacenter Services from fall on. This will help ensure that our joint customers can move seamlessly between on-premise and cloud deployments, with the high standards of security and compliance expected by customers,” he added.

Deutsche Telekom aims to strengthen its growth with cloud services over the next few years. Closer partnerships with top-tier technology providers like VMware play a crucial part in achieving this aspiration. “Our goals are to make innovations from our community of strategic partners available to customers more quickly, to empower customers through self-service, and to offer customers choice and flexibility by embracing industry-leading standards and cloud APIs,” said Urbanski.  “Our new VMware vCloud Datacenter Service is a great example of that.”

 “VMware is pleased that T-Systems is joining the VMware vCloud® Datacenter Services community to bring its enterprise-class cloud services to multiple countries around the globe," said Mathew Lodge, vice president, cloud services product marketing and management, VMware. "T-Systems will broaden its VMware expertise by adding this cloud service offering to its existing and highly capable VMware consulting and integration practice, giving customers outstanding options for their cloud deployments."

About Deutsche Telekom

Deutsche Telekom is one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies with more than 129 million mobile customers, almost 34 million fixed-network lines and 17 million broadband lines (as of March 31, 2012). The Group provides fixed-network, mobile communications, Internet and IPTV products and services for consumers, and ICT solutions for business and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in around 50 countries and has over 235,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenue of EUR 58.7 billion in the 2011 financial year – over half of it outside Germany (as of December 31, 2011).

About T-Systems

Drawing on a global infrastructure of data centers and networks, T-Systems operates information and communication technology (ICT) systems for multinational corporations and public sector institutions. On this basis, Deutsche Telekom's corporate customer arm provides integrated solutions for the networked future of business and society. Some 48,200 employees at T-Systems combine industry expertise with ICT innovations to add significant value to customers' core business all over the world. The corporate customers unit generated revenue of around EUR 9.2 billion in the 2011 financial year.

About VMware

VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2011 revenues of $3.77 billion, VMware has more than 350,000 customers and 50,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com. Its German branch office is located in Unterschleissheim, Munich.