EMC, Cisco launch cloud experience centres in India

NEW DELHI, INDIA: EMC Corporation and Cisco launched Cloud Experience Centers in Bangalore.

This is a first-of-its-kind collaboration between the two, with the twin facilities located at EMC Center of Excellence and Cisco Globalization Center East.

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Manoj Chugh, president, EMC India and SAARC, said: “While Cloud Computing is a huge buzzword in technology, adoption is taking its time as CIOs are seeking the reassurance that cloud computing infrastructures are reliable, scalable, and secure. The labs established in Bangalore by EMC and Cisco is a live test bed for customers to come in and validate their business cases in a live environment.”

Naresh Wadhwa, president and country manager, Cisco India & SAARC, said, “Our approach to cloud computing is to maximize customer choice and industry innovation, so our partnership with EMC reinforces our commitment to help customers accelerate adoption of this phenomenal trend in IT. The cloud experience centers in Bangalore will help customers address their concerns related to cloud deployment and evolve their business thereby helping drive greater business impact.”

Features of EMC and Cisco’s Cloud Experience Centres:

· Experience Centers showcase the build cloud based services using pre-engineered, pre-integrated and validated vBlock infrastructure package.

· Multi-tenancy capabilities to serve multiple clients (tenants), which increases operational efficiency by letting one share the compute, storage and network resources in a secure environment.

· Ability to build cloud environment through EMC VPlex.

. Virtualisation Experience Infrastructure (VXI) support.