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The Business Benefits

Business Benefits

If you could immediately save at least 20% on business running costs, would you? Virtualisation strategies from Cisco help you redefine what you can achieve with technology today. Use Cisco virtualisation to help you uncover new cost saving efficiencies and build a distinct competitive advantage.

So how does it work and what are the benefits?
Cisco helps virtualise, pool and share resources across your entire organisation, eliminating unnecessary waste. This produces new gains and drives efficiencies into key business processes.

Where could you realise these gains?

  • Strip costs and duplication out of customer service and supply chain management
  • Reduce your IT power consumption costs while you lower your carbon footprint
  • Share information and resources as needed at a lower cost
  • Make your employees more mobile and collaborative through more efficient and better performing IT systems

Cisco virtualisation solutions have been designed to deliver you tangible benefits across three of your most strategic business requirements:

Agility —to react, respond, build and stay ahead for long term competitive advantage. Enjoy the freedom to manoeuvre and direct resources as needed, reducing the reaction time essential for success in today’s business environment.

Efficiency — it’s a streamlined way of provisioning resources virtually with what you require, where and when it’s needed. Get maximum utilisation out of existing resources, reduce running costs, and achieve a higher ROI from your current infrastructure.

Risk Management — This unified architecture increases reliability, availability and security across your critical business processes by applying shared network principles to the data centre — reducing downtime, and embedding business continuity through your organisation.

Read how This website section provides you with a number of video and written case studies, podcasts, articles, and white papers about Cisco virtualisation and how it positively impacts energy efficiency, cost reduction, agility, resilience, customer service and more.


State of Oregon Consolidates for Virtualisation.

This video examines how the State of Oregon achieved virtualisation project success, ensuring their IT staff was equipped with the right skills and expertise for their dynamic, new environment.



GM's IT Network Drives Business Success: Cisco Connects Worldwide Manufacturing Operation

GM’s global business is powered by Cisco's IT network architecture allowing collaboration and innovation between product designers, manufacturing engineers, suppliers and plant experts worldwide.



IT Executive Video - Mike Norman Cisco Data Centre Director of Data Centre Design

Mike Norman, Cisco’s Director of Data Centre Design, discusses key strategic issues around the Data Centre for business decision makers.


Data Centre TechMinute: VMware @ Cisco.

Sidney Morgan talks about what Cisco is doing in the server virtualisation space, and looks at what virtualisation efforts Cisco is considering for the future.
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54 of Fortune 500 companies use Cisco WAAS

From the banking industry to the world of retail, organisations today rely heavily on their branches to provide the best experience possible for customers. Cisco WAAS plays a big role.
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Virtualising Service-Oriented Infrastructure

This informative piece describes the interaction between SOA and virtualisation, and examines the benefit of adopting an "overall virtualisation roadmap as part of your enterprise architecture."
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Virtualisation: From Silos to a Service-Oriented Infrastructure

This highly informative article discusses the benefits of SOA combined with virtualisation, and examines the holistic implementation of virtualisation through a phased approach. It also investigates Cisco’s Service-Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) and how it reinforces SOA and virtualisation.
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Cost Cutting with a Conscience

This article examines the broad spectrum of advantages that stem from virtualisation - with particular emphasis on reducing costs and energy consumption.
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How Server Virtualisation Paid Off for Cisco IT.

How can virtualisation directly and indirectly impact your business carbon footprint? This article answers this question, while providing an excellent section on ‘Considerations for CIO’s considering virtualisation, based on Cisco’s direct experience.
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From Cisco: Five Proven Strategies for Dynamic Times

Reduce costs, invest in your workforce, move closer to customers, and identify investment opportunities that will propel your business forward.
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Cisco Data Centre Strategy Improves Business Continuity for the Largest News Website in Belgium

Read how Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) and virtualisation technology helps De Persgroep, a leading Belgium media company, deliver 30 percent plus cost and resource savings for data centre operations.
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Increase Business Agility

Outlines why it’s so important to take a holistic approach to virtualisation.
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Enhance Efficiency

The more efficiently companies can use their existing IT assets-servers, storage, networking and other equipment-the better their return on investment.
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Improve Resillience

More than ever before, global companies need a reliable and secure network infrastructure to ensure data is available anywhere in the world at any time.
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Dutch Defense Ministry Improves IT Service Provision And Cuts Costs with Cisco Data Centre

This case study gives you a good foundation in how to build a data centre-class network infrastructure.
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Virtualisation: New Building Blocks for Network Design.

Geared towards a CIO or technical IT decision makers, this paper discusses the strategic value of Network Virtualisation for both business agility and IT expenditure reduction.
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