Today I am pleased to introduce a new Cisco product family, and the next generation of hyperconverged infrastructure: Cisco HyperFlex Systems. Cisco HyperFlex represents true hyperconvergence, combining innovative software defined storage and data services software with Cisco UCS, the proven system that unifies servers and networking like no other.
With Cisco HyperFlex, we're delivering the capabilities customers tell us they've been waiting for in a hyperconverged solution. By extending our strategy of software defined, policy driven infrastructure to hyperconvergence, Cisco will accelerate mainstream adoption of this valuable technology and provide customers a future-ready platform for evolving applications
When you look back on the last 10 years, it's easy to make the case that Cisco has enabled much of the data center infrastructure convergence we've seen so far-with Nexus, UCS and ACI. During the industry transition to virtualization and cloud, Cisco saw the need to converge the network with computing. We then partnered with strategic storage vendors to deliver Cisco Integrated Infrastructure. Customers responded and now Cisco Unified Computing continues to redefine data center capabilities for over 50,000 customers across the globe.
Video view of Cisco HyperFlex
Hyperconvergence: The story so far
Today our industry is in transition once more, to more distributed applications, microservices architectures, and shifting IT models. Hyperconverged infrastructure was introduced to leverage the economic benefits of software-defined storage (software that federates storage across clusters of x86 servers) and deliver a simplified solution for mainstream workloads. First movers in this space focused on getting to market quickly and delivering simplicity. To do that they had to made some tradeoffs that have limited the potential of hyperconverged infrastructure:
Understanding the full-credit answer
As I've spoken with customers and partners around the world they've told me they want:
We approached hyperconvergence from this lens, and developed an agile, efficient and flexible system to meet these requirements.
Cisco HyperFlex Systems
Through our strategic relationship with Springpath, we've integrated innovative storage and data services software with Cisco UCS to create an architecture with substantial differentiation:
Please join us for a webcast on Thursday, March 10th to hear more about the re-imagined data center.
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