In a landscape of shifting economic cycles and green, sustainability drivers around climate change, business demands a strategic approach to resource management and energy efficiency.
Cisco virtualisation helps you realign your network infrastructure to reduce your IT power consumption requirements while you lower your carbon footprint. Virtualised network equipment including virtual firewalls, load-balancers, and switches reduce the number of appliances in the Data Centre, resulting in lower power and cooling costs.
This video details a major consolidation effort for Monsanto’s data centre which now represents "leadership in energy efficient design". Here, virtualisation has contributed to growth via inventory management, effectiveness and agility.
A compelling discussion on how Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) addresses several challenges in data centres including power and cooling. >Listen Now
Data Centre TechMinute: How is Cisco Virtualising Our Own Infrastructure?
An inside look at how Cisco is driving energy efficiency across its own data centre infrastructure. >Listen Now
Virtualise to Save Energy in the Data Centre.
This insightful interview with Cisco’s VP of Green Engineering looks at how to effectively use virtualisation as an energy and therefore cost saving tool. Also covers many of the common misconceptions involved in doing so. >Learn More
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. >Learn More
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. >Register to read white paper
The alliance between Cisco and VMware delivers a shared strategy of integrated solutions, services, and products to help you maximise assets through virtualisation. > Learn More
