Cisco Virtualized Foundation Smart Solution

Why the Cisco Virtualized Foundation Smart Solution Matters to You

The Cisco Virtualized Foundation Smart Solution offers a smart, cost-effective approach that addresses critical midsize business needs. Combining proven best practices and fully tested reference architectures, Cisco provides a step-by-step solution to efficiently build and operate a virtualized IT infrastructure.

Rapid Application Deployment

Cisco offers an architecture that supports rapid application growth and management of growing data storage requirements by:

• Consolidating physical and virtual servers, storage, and networking components into a unified data center platform, helping administrators easily allocate and reallocate resources on demand
• Offloading data storage from individual servers to a centralized storage system to control costs and accelerate data mirroring, backup, and restore operations

Security and Reliability

Cisco provides reliable access to information and secures critical business data by:

• Increasing application availability and user productivity through strategic architectural design to improve customer satisfaction and corporate profitability
• Protecting sensitive, confidential data from malware and hacker attacks to help organizations comply with regulations and maintain customer trust

Lower Operational Costs

Cisco optimizes server-processing resources and controls costs of deploying new server rooms and data centers by:

• Taking advantage of proven reference architectures and device configurations, based on best practices and rigorous testing
• Using patented, low-cost memory technology to expand the capacity of physical servers, and reduce the need for new servers, boosting utilization and ROI

Simplified Operations

Cisco helps simplify deployment, accelerate troubleshooting, and lower operating costs so that your IT organization can focus on innovation. Cisco and its partners help you plan, build, and manage an architecture to support your virtualized environment, as well as:

• Manage total cost of ownership
• Improve operational efficiency
• Deliver predictable performance

Designed for Midsize

The Cisco Virtualized Foundation Smart Solution is based on design guides created specifically for midsize organizations, based on the experience of assisting thousands of Cisco customers. Cisco design guides:

• Span a wide range of use cases and scenarios
• Speed deployment of data center and business services
• Reduce risk when evolving your infrastructure