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Cisco Taps Sentinel to partner on Cisco's Unified Computing Platform
Sentinel is pleased to announce that Cisco Systems has invited Sentinel to become a part of Cisco's strategy to design, sell, deploy and support one of Cisco's rising stars, the Unified Computing System.
According to analysts:
"Cisco has released an evolutionary data center architecture, innovative services, and an open ecosystem of partners to help customers develop next-generation virtualized data centers. Cisco is delivering Unified Computing, an architecture that bridges the silos in the data center into one unified architecture. Cisco’s Unified Computing System unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization resources in a single system that can reduce IT infrastructure costs and complexity.
Cisco's "B" series UCS is aimed at the largest data centers with the intent of reducing trenchant problems such as server agility, power consumption, scalability, and complexity. Cisco’s UCS will save customers space and energy as well as capital and operational expenses, up to 20 and 30%, respectively, according to the company. Cisco has realized that it cannot go it alone and the company has also realized that it cannot base its systems on VMware alone. Microsoft, Red Hat (in a later release), and VMware bring strong virtualization options for the UCS. By entering the blade market at this point, Cisco has had the advantage of observing all of the trials and tribulations of other competitors since that market’s inception.
Cisco's "C" series UCS is a rack mount server that will compete in the mid market."
According to Cisco, participation in Cisco ATP - Data Center Unified Computing program is by Cisco nomination only and requires the achievement of defined program criteria. After the application is approved, Cisco will announce SENTINEL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. as a qualified partner in the Cisco ATP - Data Center Unified Computing program and Sentinel will be listed as a Cisco ATP - Data Center Unified Computing Partner in the Cisco Partner Locator. This announcement will state that Sentinel has met the rigorous Cisco requirements for the ATP - Data Center Unified Computing program and is therefore authorized to sell, design, install, and support the ATP program specific technology and products.
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