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Data Center

The Growing Role of the
Data Center

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In the next-generation data center, virtualization and other technologies enhance IT's ability to respond quickly to the company's business needs

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Cisco IT’s data center strategy adapts to current and future business needs through resource management, business continuance, cost-effective storage area networks, enhanced data security, improved efficiency and business productivity. We divide the data center category into the following topics.

Application Networking Services
Application Networking Services (ANS) solutions bring added intelligence and speed to application traffic that flows between data center servers and clients in branch offices worldwide. ACNS-based content networking solutions provide protection at gateway routers, filtering potentially damaging traffic, as well as delivering software, videos on demand, and live streaming video across the WAN. Coupled with wide-area application services (WAAS) technology, ACNS content networking provides a cost-effective way to distribute large files or high-bandwidth streaming video content across the WAN, improving performance by bringing needed content closer to end users.

Application-oriented networking (AON) modules in the data center and branch routers provide a variety of content transformation capabilities, including protocol translation and encryption for added data center security and application security; content inspection and message logging; SOAP and XML translations to support business-to-business application integration; and more.

Data Center Architecture
A standards-based data center architecture provides the platform for optimizing application, server, and storage resources. A resilient network infrastructure should support security, availability, performance, and business continuance goals, and facilitate the adoption of new technologies such as virtualization that allow organizations to respond faster to changing business and market needs.

Storage Networking
Storage networking frees storage drives from direct connection to hosts and allows large storage resources, such as storage frames and disk arrays, to be pooled and shared among many hosts, for easier manageability and better utilization of costly storage resources. Hosts can access this pooled storage over IP networks or Fibre Channel networks.

All Content for Data Center

Topic Title Description Translated
Content
Date
Posted
Application Networking Services Application-Oriented Networking Cisco IT Uses AON to Simplify Application Development and Maintenance Japanese April
2006
Application Networking Services Data Center Consolidation with Wide-Area Application Services Cisco IT Advances Data Center Consolidation with Wide-Area Application Services   July
2008
Application Networking Services Enterprise Content Networking in Europe Content Networking Enables Executive Messaging in Europe   August 2004
Application Networking Services Enterprise Content Networking System Cisco IT Deploys Content Networking to Improve Application Performance and Security   October 2004
Application Networking Services Enterprise Software Delivery Cisco Delivers Software to the Enterprise Japanese March
2006
Data Center Architecture Data Center Consolidation Cisco IT Achieves Consolidation and Standardization in the Data Center Chinese
Japanese
French
Other Languages
October 2005
Data Center Architecture Virtualized Servers in the Data Center Update Cisco IT Virtualizes Data Center Application Servers   June
2008
Data Center Architecture Virtualized Servers in the Data Center Cisco IT Virtualizes Data Center Application Servers Chinese
Japanese
French
Other Languages
August 2007
Storage Networking Data Center SAN in Europe Update Cisco Migrates to a SAN Environment in Small European Data Center   July
2008
Storage Networking Data Center SAN in Europe Cisco Migrates to a SAN Environment in Small European Data Center Chinese April
2004
Storage Networking SAN for Business Continuity Cisco IT Achieves Subminute Recovery Point Objective   December 2005
Storage Networking SAN for Data Management Update Cisco IT Uses a SAN to Automate the Legal Discovery Process   July
2008
Storage Networking SAN for Data Management Cisco IT Uses SAN to Automate the Legal Discovery Process   June
2005
Storage Networking SAN for ERP Data Storage Update Cisco IT Deploys a SAN for ERP Data Storage   August
2008
Storage Networking SAN for ERP Data Storage Cisco IT Deploys a SAN for ERP Data Storage Chinese March
2004
Storage Networking SAN Switch Interoperability in Migration Update Cisco Multilayer Director Switch Operates with Other SAN Switches During SAN Migration   August
2008
Storage Networking SAN Switch Interoperability in Migration Cisco Multilayer Director Switch Operates with Other SAN Switches During SAN Migration Chinese March
2004
Topic Title Description Translated
Content
Date
Posted
Data Center Architecture Data Center Management Cisco IT Operates, Manages, and Protects the Data Center   July
2004
Data Center Architecture Data Center Tour Introduction to the Cisco Data Center and Operational Control Center   March
2005
Storage Networking Data Storage Utilization Cisco IT Improves Utilization by Recovering Hard Drive Disk Space   October 2004
Storage Networking Storage Area Network ROI Cisco IT Measures SAN Cost Savings   September 2005
Date Posted Theme Title Description
July
2007
IT Governance Cisco Data Center Lays Foundation for Greater Business Agility and Resiliency Standards and Governance Are Central to Cisco IT’s ROI in New Production Data Center
July
2007
Consolidation and Design Design for a Productive Data Center The Business and IT Benefits of a Distributed Physical Model Are Shared
December 2007 Virtualization Network-Based Virtualization Cisco IT Virtualizes Network-Based Resources for Greater Applications Availability, Agility, Resiliency, and Broad Cost Savings
July
2007
Consolidation and Design Roadmap for a Cisco IT Service-Oriented Data Center Service-Oriented Data Center Paves the Way for Guaranteed Service Levels and Fast Resource and Application Provisioning
September 2007 Virtualization Server Virtualization on Fast Track Cisco IT Uses Virtualization to Lay the Foundation for Delivering Infrastructure as a Service
September 2007 Virtualization VFrame Data Center First Customer VFrame DC Solution Is at the Core of Cisco IT’s Service-Oriented Data Center Model
September 2007 Virtualization Storage Virtualization a Work in Progress Cisco IT Reaps Utilization and Cost Benefits from Virtualizing Storage
Title Description Video
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Date
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Experience
the Cisco
DataCenter:
A Virtual Tour
Eight-part series that explores the Cisco data center, including:
Overview
Servers and Storage
Networking
Operations Management
Deployment
Physical Risk Management
Service Oriented Data Center
Future of the Data Center


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LAN Design
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Cisco data centers evolve to virtualized, services-oriented model 01:01:18 May
2008
Service Oriented
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Networking
Overview of Cisco multiyear data center redesign 00:42:18 May
2008
Title Description Duration Format Date
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Experience the Cisco Data Center: A Virtual Tour – Overview Overview of the Cisco data center (part 1 of 8) 00:05:05 Video on Demand September 2007
Experience the Cisco Data Center: A Virtual Tour – Servers and Storage Cisco data center server and storage virtualization (part 2 of 8) 00:03:39 Video on Demand September 2007
Experience the Cisco Data Center: A Virtual Tour – Networking

Cisco data center network logical and physical elements (part 3 of 8)

00:07:13 Video on Demand September 2007
Experience the Cisco Data Center: A Virtual Tour – Operations Management

Inside the Cisco data center Operations Command Center (part 4 of 8)

00:05:43 Video on Demand September 2007
Experience the Cisco Data Center: A Virtual Tour – Deployment

Testing Cisco data center equipment in a lab environment (part 5 of 8)

00:03:23 Video on Demand September 2007
Experience the Cisco Data Center: A Virtual Tour – Physical Risk Management Installation and remote monitoring of data center physical infrastructure (part 6 of 8) 00:02:39 Video on Demand September 2007
Experience the Cisco Data Center: A Virtual Tour
– Service Oriented Data Center

Cisco IT service-oriented data center processes and technology to provision services (part 7 of 8)

00:06:12 Video on Demand September 2007
Experience the Cisco Data Center: A Virtual Tour – Future of the Data Center Cisco next-generation data center (part 8 of 8) 00:06:00 Video on Demand September 2007
Title Description Date
Posted
Content Networking Content networking technology at Cisco May
2008
Data Center and Storage Networking The data center design and storage networking architecture at Cisco May
2008