Microsoft Partners With Cisco on New Unified Computing System

mdingle — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:01:00 GMT

Today, Microsoft Corp. announced its support of Cisco’s Unified Computing System entrance into the server datacenter market as an original equipment manufacturer (OEM). Through this agreement, Cisco will pre-package, resell and support Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V technology and Microsoft SQL Server 2008. In addition, Microsoft is working closely with Cisco to integrate System Center into this new solution.

Over the past five years Microsoft has built a strong alliance with Cisco, and Unified Computing System is a natural point of evolution for the relationship. These two companies that provide best-of-breed solutions are uniting network, compute and virtualization resources into one system. More information can be found on the Windows Server team blog and on PressPass.

Cisco and Microsoft Deliver Simplified Branch Infrastructure Solution

grantkd — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:00:00 GMT

Microsoft and Cisco announced that the Windows Server on WAAS (WoW) appliance is available to order. This appliance brings together Cisco's Wide Area Application Services with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 to create a Branch Office Box, meant to help simplify branch office IT. Plans to build this product were announced back in February around the Heroes Happen Here launch.

This is a program that many banks, retail stores, and other organizations with complicated branch office IT have been waiting for. WoW allows organizations to consolidate networking and core IT branch servers into a single piece of hardware. The WAN optimization component provided by Cisco WAAS lets you run applications centrally (yet feel like they're running locally), while keeping IT services in the branch in a simple, easy to manage appliance.

WoW is one of many ways for IT to design branch office infrastructure, and is a great option if you're looking to centralize applications and data out of your branch offices. To learn more, check out the Windows Server on WAAS page.

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Microsoft Partners With Cisco on New Unified Computing System

Cisco and Microsoft Deliver Simplified Branch Infrastructure Solution