Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Microsoft Partners With Cisco on New Unified Computing System: Companies bring world-class datacenter solutions to enterprise customers.

See the full press release for more details and a Bill Laing video

Today, Microsoft Corp. announced its support of Cisco’s Unified Computing System entrance into the server datacenter market as an original equipment manufacturer (OEM). Through this agreement, Cisco will pre-package, resell and support Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V technology and Microsoft SQL Server 2008. In addition, Microsoft is working closely with Cisco to integrate System Center into this new solution.

Over the past five years Microsoft has built a strong alliance with Cisco, and Unified Computing System is a natural point of evolution for the relationship. These two companies that provide best-of-breed solutions are uniting network, compute and virtualization resources into one system.

Microsoft Partners With Cisco on New Unified Computing System: Companies bring world-class datacenter solutions to enterprise customers.

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