Cisco teams up with EMC to unite remote offices
Cisco teams up with EMC to unite remote offices
Cisco is planning to sell EMC's storage products with its File Engine Series to make it easier for companies to completely manage, store and protect information held at remote offices and keeps this data linked to a central data centre.
Cisco will resell EMC's NS500 and NS700 series of products, which simplify NAS management with integrated networked storage, with the File Engine Series, which are based on technology bought from Actona.
The File Engine Series allow data to be accessed over long distances without compromising the performance of systems. It also allows data stored centrally to be accessed seamlessly from remote offices.
Cisco hopes that this integrated solution will allow IT administrators to take advantage of centralised resources for backup and disaster recovery to achieve better protection of their branch-office data. It will also provide a single point of contact for support and services too.
Luca Cafiero, the senior vice president and general manager of the data centre, switching, storage and wireless technologies group at Cisco, said: "Both Cisco and EMC are strategic vendors of data centre solutions for enterprise and service provider customers globally.
"This agreement enable Cisco to offer a comprehensive network-enabled solution that spans customer requirements from the branch to the data centre."
Howard Elias, the executive vice president of corporate marketing and the office of technology at EMC, added: "Today's announcement is a natural extension of our ongoing partnering with Cisco to bring leading solutions to market that help our mutual customers manage information throughout its lifecycle and solve some of their most pressing business challenges.
"The combination of technology from these two industry leaders will form a compelling enterprise-class data consolidation and management solution."
Cisco plans to offer this combined package of EMC and Cisco systems by the second quarter of this year.
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