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Savvis To Peddle Cisco-Based Private Clouds

Cisco and Savvis, the outsourcer, have tied up to push private clouds
By Maureen O'Gara
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December 16, 2009 11:45 PM EST
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Cisco and Savvis, the outsourcer, have tied up to push private clouds.

Cisco's first big server score, Savvis will make Cisco's industry-alienating Unified Computing System (UCS) the cornerstone of Symphony, the private cloud platform it previously called Project Spirit and use it as the basis of the virtualized private data centers it hawks to the enterprise.

UCS includes servers, networking, storage access and virtualization managed as a single system. Savvis will also be using Cisco's Unified Service Delivery solution to combine the UCS architecture with Cisco's Nexus switches, ACE and MPLS next-generation network.

The pair has a reference architecture tested and validated at Cisco that makes Symphony, which is still in beta and not due out until spring, into Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) it can sell to the enterprise.

Savvis is one of the first service providers to deliver Cisco-based private clouds. The companies will co-market.

Savvis runs 28 data centers globally and claims 4,000 customers, including 40% of the Fortune 100.

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