Cisco and VMware Deliver Solution to Simplify Management

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SAN JOSE, Calif. and PALO ALTO, Calif., April 21, 2009 - Cisco and VMware today announced that the Cisco Nexus® 1000V virtual switch will be supported in VMware vSphereTM 4, which is being announced today. The combined solution is designed to help customers simplify virtualization and network services management for cloud environments. VMware vSphere 4 is the industry’s first operating system for building the internal cloud, enabling the delivery of efficient, flexible and reliable IT as a service in the data center to help reduce IT costs while increasing IT responsiveness. .../...

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“The combination of VMware vSphere 4 and Cisco’s Nexus 1000V is simply a revolution in computing that is provided by two unbeatable players that have the same vision of the datacenter,” said Julien Mousqueton, Technical Solutions Architect for AGRICA. “The combination of these two solutions allows our IT teams to discover new benefits to virtualized infrastructure because we can now administer a network in a virtual environment the same way as we have done in the physical world—it is simplified and intuitive.”

“VMware vSphere 4 with Cisco Nexus 1000V is lightning-fast—both in terms of network and data storage,” said Olivier Parcollet, Information System Manager for SETAO. “The Cisco Nexus 1000V allows us to gain full control of both the physical and virtual aspects of our infrastructure, driving us toward 100 percent virtualization with stronger security and increased application and resource availability.”

“Cisco and VMware's collaborative approach to driving and delivering integrated virtualization solutions for the data center is unparalleled in the industry,” said Bob Olwig, vice president of Corporate Business Development for World Wide Technology, Inc. “With this latest offering we are now better positioned to meet our customers’ virtualization requirements, helping them to lower costs and increase their business agility.”