Cisco's data center deluge [video]

The Allen, Texas facility, which opened this spring, leverages the vendor's entire data center research portfolio: computing, switching, and data storage access. It supports the company's internal private cloud and as well delivers IT as a service to clients. It's got quite a few interesting green features. Leveraging a unified network fabric that unites storage and data traffic has reduced the number of switches, adapters and cabling required, which Cisco says has as well reduced power usage. The company says it has saved more than $1 million on cabling in this facility. Fewer cables have as well increased air circulation so the equipment runs cooler and more efficiently.

The Allen, Texas data center is paired with the Richardson, Texas facility to form what Cisco calls a Metro Virtual Data Center. At the same time, the Active/Active data centers form a virtualized, dynamic IT services cloud, as well serving as backup sites for one another. This enables both data centers to run real-time critical applications, just as WebEx, simultaneously in both places for world-class business resiliency.

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Beth Bacheldor is a freelance writer and editor with more than 20 years' experience, with much of that time covering the high-tech and IT industries. She has worked for numerous publications covering near every type of business innovation, including IT outsourcing, data center operations, RFID, information security, systems management, networking, business intelligence, and enterprise applications just as enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and supply chain management . She has written for such publications as CIO.com, Network Computing, EdTech Magazine, Government Computer News, RFID Journal and many others. She has as well written technology reports for companies just as Computer Economics and Enterprise Management Associates. She spent more than a decade as a news editor and writer for InformationWeek and CommunicationsWeek. She lives by the sea in southeastern North Carolina with her two children.

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