Building next-generation data centers that are more scalable and sustainable
Published:
February 25 2011, 01:54 PM
by
David Resnic
My colleague Pam Snaith recently wrote a Service Assurance Daily blog post about how the combination of Cisco UCS and CA Technologies can help customers build next-generation data centers that are more scaleable and sustainable.
Pam explains that embedded management and a flexible API in Cisco UCS make the data center platform accessible to partners to extend its manageability. For example, she says, "CA Spectrum Infrastructure Manager, CA eHealth Performance Manager and CA Automation Suite for Data Centers share a direct integration with Cisco UCS that results in an integrated fault, performance and configuration management solution that customers can use to assure their entire physical and virtual infrastructure. It also addresses the need for automated, policy-based provisioning of physical, virtual and cloud resources. All three products tie to CA Virtual Assurance as a common management layer for virtual server technologies, so that virtual servers are managed equally with physical servers."
Click here to read Pam's full post, which provides examples of how our service assurance and service automation products support Cisco UCS. It also includes a link to Cisco's book, Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) A Complete Reference Guide to the Cisco Data Center Virtualization Server Architecture. The book includes a chapter from CA Technologies titled "CA Management Integration with Cisco UCS".
Tags: Automation, Data Center, Virtualization, Configuration Management, virtualization management, Service Assurance, Service Automation, Cisco, Virtual Assurance, Performance Management, Fault Management, Cisco UCS
By: David Resnic
David is senior principal of communications at CA, working with the Virtualization and Service Automation teams. He has more than 18 years of B2B and B2C public relations experience, working with dozens of companies such as Arsenal Digital Solutions, E Ink, Hasbro, MobileAccess, and Spalding Sports Worldwide...
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