Our partnership with Cisco has strengthened further with plans to accelerate hybrid cloud adoption through the adoption of Cisco’s Intercloud Fabric architecture.
Cisco Intercloud Fabric, at its most basic level, is software that allows workloads to be ported across various public clouds (such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure), and back and forth between public cloud and a customer’s dedicated hosted private cloud or Sungard AS-provided private cloud.
This workload portability enables workloads across various hypervisors (a piece of computer software, firmware or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines) and removes what, until now, has been one of the many barriers to adopting a multi-use case hybrid cloud. Cisco Intercloud Fabric ultimately supports the portability of a virtual machine (VM) across an Intercloud Fabric-enabled cloud platform, with the appropriate security and control.
In addition to Cisco Intercloud Fabric, Sungard AS (a Cisco Cloud and Managed Services Program member), is also the first global service provider to deploy Cisco’s Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI). This is important as Cisco ACI links closely to the Cisco Intercloud strategy, providing the ability to automatically provision resources based on the workload’s needs.
Cisco Intercloud Fabric and ACI very much sit together, one providing workload portability within a Cisco Intercloud-enabled cloud, the other (ACI) providing automated provisioning, that can be tied to the needs of applications sitting anywhere in the network. ACI gives customers the ability to adopt policies, which in essence can provide controls on behaviour, interoperability and security, with quality of service (QOS) standards. The two tied together form a strong foundation for hybrid cloud and the development of cloud-native applications (applications designed to run specifically in the cloud). Consequently, these two exciting developments are key components of the Sungard AS cloud services portfolio and our adoption of this technology will allow customers to truly realise, embrace and adopt a hybrid cloud strategy.
“We’re helping customers and partners extend their IT infrastructures into the Sungard AS global cloud by integrating the Cisco Intercloud Fabric into our solutions portfolio,” said Jack Dziak, Executive Vice President, Global Products, Sungard AS. “Cisco Intercloud Fabric provides organisations the secure cloud services they need anywhere in the world, giving them their choice of using the cloud the way they want it. This in turn enhances the overall value proposition Sungard AS provides our clients, which is a win-win for everyone,” he added.
Sungard AS already offers a full suite of Cisco Power Cloud services including Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Recover2Cloud® and SAP HANA. As a Cisco technology partner for more than 15 years, we and our channel partners are uniquely positioned to provide Intercloud Fabric innovations for many shared customers.
“Our customers face the biggest challenges in hybrid cloud adoption,” said Gee Rittenhouse, Senior Vice President/General Manager of Cisco’s Cloud and Virtualization Group. “We are excited to have Sungard AS bring Internet scale and globally secure solutions for hyper distributed applications and data. With Cisco Intercloud Fabric technology unlocking the potential of the hybrid cloud, Sungard AS is showing its strength as a global Cloud Provider by helping customers adopt hybrid clouds worldwide.”
We are currently validating our Intercloud Fabric Architecture environments and demonstrating how these will integrate with Cisco customers and partners looking to connect private and public clouds to meet requirements for resource management, data availability, datacentre capacity challenges and seasonal spikes.
If you’d like to know more, talk to your Account Manager, call 1800 938 122 or email avail@sungardas.com