Weco Systems International, an Innovative and a leading Systems Integration company in Nigeria has partnered with Cisco Systems, worldwide leader in networking to introduce an advanced data center architecture called Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) to organizations that are particular about productivity, smart and agile data center, through a workshop tagged: “Building Smart and Agile Data Centers for Business Transformation.” recently held Lagos.
According to Olawale Owoeye, service provider systems engineer- Africa, Cisco Systems “Industry shifts are redefining IT at all levels. On-premise IT consumption models are shifting to cloud-based services. IT as a service (IaaS) is supplanted by applications as a service.
Separate development and operations are moving toward integrated development and operations (DevOps). Box-centric management models are migrating to application-centric management.
Business agility requires application agility, so IT teams need to provision applications in hours instead of months. Resources need to scale up (or down) in minutes, not hours.
Traditional approaches take a soloed operational view, with no common operational model between the application, network, security, and cloud teams. A common operational model delivers application agility, simplified operations, assured performance, and scale”
Owoeye further explained in his presentation tagged- Building the next generation Datacenter, an application –Centric approach that Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) in the data center is a holistic architecture with centralized automation and policy-driven application profiles.
ACI delivers software flexibility with the scalability of hardware performance. . Upgrading data center switches will allow organizations need to:
•Deliver performance, scale, and capacity to meet the demands of virtualization, cloud, and critical applications
•Simplify management and operations regardless of architectural preference
•Make use of built-in, intelligence capabilities to help align the network to both business and application requirements today and in the future. With virtualization, mobility, and distributed application acceleration, Weco System’s proposed Cisco Nexus Series of switches offer a robust physical and virtual networking portfolio.
This new platform helps address existing needs, while also offering innovations that enable a more efficient and cost-effective foundation for the future.
According to Owoeye With these Nexus switches, organizations can build an agile and efficient network foundation that helps deliver high availability, workload mobility, and secure multi-tenancy.
The switches help address the needs of distributed applications (such as big data/Apache Hadoop) and data base applications (such as Oracle and SAP) running on bare-metal and requiring optimal I/O performance.
The switches update your server access to 10G in support of increasing VM densities and movement with a fabric architecture that can support over 55,000 10G ports.
“Cisco Nexus 9000 Series creates the network foundation that allows for the creation of an application centric infrastructure that can radically simplify, optimize, and accelerate the entire application deployment lifecycle. The proposed solution’s fabric-based architecture accommodates increased, application-level flexibility; this translates into a more dynamic network infrastructure in which resources can be pooled and VMs freely moved for a more scalable, simplified data center,” concluded Owoeye.
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