According to Westcon SA, the Cisco CloudVerse solution set offers customers a set of capabilities that bring together: the intelligence of the network, the power of the data centre, and the flexibility of cloud applications in a single solution.
"The rationale behind CloudVerse entails the bringing together of the many clouds within a business, or with which a business interacts - anywhere, any time and on any device," said Jacques Malherbe, CEO of Westcon SA. "The result is a complete cloud experience, in which customers can enjoy the security, agility and cost advantages of the cloud, while being able to experience IT as a service, with content delivered on demand."
A complete cloud universe, CloudVerse provides a series of enabling solutions that assist in paving a customer's journey to the cloud. Within the cloud applications the new Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution has been enhanced with service assurance for greater visibility and management, provisioning automation for more unified communications features, a private cloud option, and enhanced mobility and unified communications capabilities, creating new sales opportunities for partners.
New Cisco offerings that add to CloudVerse include: Cisco Intelligent Automation, enabling partners to deliver on-demand, automated provisioning to enterprise and commercial customers; Cisco Network Services Manager, providing customers a single point of integration between the network and automation software; Cisco Network Provisioning System, using intelligence in the network to inform managers of how best to provision services in the cloud; as well as Cloud Enablement Services for Adopting Clouds to help accelerate application migration to a cloud infrastructure.
According to Malherbe, CloudVerse presents a unique opportunity for cloud, data centre, collaboration, networking and service provider partners, by providing them with a set of solutions that will ensure they can offers their customers a qualified road to the cloud.
"The cloud journey is one that many of our customers are currently on. It is, however, our role as their technology support partner and trusted advisor, to ensure that the technology decisions they make today will fit into their cloud strategy for tomorrow.
"It is with this that the solutions that make up the CloudVerse offering are designed to act as part of a cloud-enablement strategy. Each component is designed to ensure that a customer cannot only take their business into the cloud with complete peace of mind, but that they are able to engage with other clouds, add new solutions to an existing cloud and enable their organisation to start making meaningful business transactions while in the cloud," he ended.
For more information on CloudVerse and how Westcon SA can assist you with better mapping your customer's road to the cloud, go to www.westconsa.co.za.
