Overview: Cloud Computing
Today, a surprising number of government organizations are still assembling their data centers from individual components instead of viewing their data center as a whole. The resulting infrastructure requires a great deal of manual support to accomplish even the most basic tasks. However, IT has begun the transition away from inefficient infrastructure and toward highly flexible and integrated virtual environments.
Cloud Computing is the next step toward realizing the Cisco Data Center 3.0 vision. It facilitates data center transformation to a new shared, virtualized infrastructure model that uses the network as the platform. With Cisco Unified Computing, a critical part of Cisco’s total cloud computing solution, you can liberate services from their underlying physical assets—allowing for dynamic adaptation to changing requirements.
By uniting computers, networks, storage access, and virtualization into a single, cohesive system, cloud computing significantly reduces the cost and complexity of daily data center operations. This allows for accelerated service delivery, enhanced continuity of operations and increased mission agility.