Cisco intros Datacenter 3.0

Kolkata

July 10, 2008

Cisco has recently introduced Datacenter 3.0, with a commitment to reduce
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 25 percent in the coming four years.

Offering a complete solution package with a validity design approach, the
company is keen in introducing Data Center Assurance Program facilitating a
clear understanding of the operational mode of the datacenter.

Commenting on Cisco's pledge to reduce GHG by the year 2012, Amit Malik, VP-Eastern
Zone, Cisco said, “As greenhouse gas comprises of the bulk of the polluting
materials, we are focusing on bringing down these emissions and focus on saving
more power.”

Combining a unified double interface fabric, which reduces eight percent of
the total data center cost with self defending network, the data center is
expected to conserve about 55 percent of total required energy to drive the data
center. Also, the use of recyclable and high-quality material ensures that there
is an extended lifecycle of the data center bringing down the scope of
repetition of environmental hazards.

“Datacenter 3.0 is built on the utility based model with a philosophy of
pay as you grow, which means, that the fixed cost incurred by the client is
minimal and there is scope of upgrading the database with the expansion of
growing needs,” said Sumit Mukhija, National Business Development Manager,
Cisco.

Evolving around the process from transactions to interactions, the trend is
now leading to the emergence of data centers built on network-based
service-oriented infrastructures (SOI). The SOI technology, an update over the
traditional servers, allows well-integration of the IT departments to treat the
data centers as a single functional unit composed of inter-­dependent,
virtualized pools of storage, network, server, and application resources
enhancing the support to conglomerate multiple applications.

As e-governance and e-commerce is gradually taking hold, the need for more
efficiency is becoming crucial and particularly, the main focus remains on the
security concerns of the data. It is here that Datacenter 3.0 has an edge over
the existing lot of the data center packages. With more efficient dissemination
of data, it is more manageable and is self-defending from most external security
invasions.