Microsoft a Cisco – optimalizácia IT služieb Roman Janovič rjanovic@cisco.com

The Partnership "Industry leaders must work together where appropriate. And where we compete, we must interoperate. That’s what customers should expect - in fact, demand - of their technology vendors. -- John Chambers, CEO, Cisco "With Cisco... there are important acts of collaboration, but also definite aspects of competition." -- Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft

An Expanding Partnership 10+ Years of Alliance History High Performance Computing Application Acceleration Management Standards UC CRM Connector Security Unified Communications IPv6 Enterprise Commercial UC CRM Connector Service Provider IPTV Consumer Digital Home

Branch Office Is Business Front Line Where: … business is won or lost … 90%+ of employees work1 … 33% of all IT spending; 20% of all servers are deployed2 … application speed directly impacts customer experience … IT service agility = business agility Retail Stores Bank Branches Medical Clinics Sales Offices … yet far from headquarters support Hospitality 1. Nemertes Research, 2007 2. Microsoft, 2007 4

Microsoft and Cisco together: Optimizing Branch IT Services

Branch IT Infrastructure: Virtualize Local Services Centralize apps + infrastructure as possible, accelerate with WAN optim. Branch Office Local Windows Server 2008 services on Cisco WAAS WAN Cisco WAAS = 10X WAN Acceleration Local IT Services Business & Communication Apps Cisco WAAS Cisco WAAS WAAS Virtual Blade Storage Backup Data Center

Summary 10 year alliance history Various interoperability options Developing on Standards Roadmap for the Future Built and Continuously Improving