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Traditional data centers have always been the backbone of network computing and connectivity, and almost all data is processed centrally in a single core. However, with the advent of the 5G era, the demand for network bandwidth and computing capacity is getting higher and higher, and the data needs to be analyzed, processed and stored at the edge of the network.

Data Age 2025, published by IDC, predicts that by 2025, about 20 per cent of the data will be real-time and do not need to be sent back to the network center for processing. This means that enterprises will build their own centralized cloud computing architecture and enhance their ability to process and store more data at the edge.

Wei Songbin, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Product Division of ▲ Cisco Greater China

Under the trend of data marginalization, the concept of "5G MAEC cloud end bureau" has become an industry consensus. Wei Songbin said, "the traditional wired phone has an end office in each district, and when the old equipment of the end office is replaced, it will become a small data center. This is the cloud end office, which can push the data processing close to the user."

Triple architecture of data center strategy

Data centers are being marginalized. We can build a small data center to handle data anytime, anywhere, and the edge and data center should communicate with each other at any time. In response, Cisco's data center strategy has a triple architecture of automation, multi-cloud, and security.

▲ Cisco data Center Architectur

Automation is mainly concentrated in infrastructure, including computing, storage and network. The market is moving towards super-convergence, and Cisco HyperFlex extends the simplicity of super-convergence from the core to the edge and clouds.

Eighty-five percent of companies around the world say they will go to the cloud and it will be cloudy. Cisco CloudCenter provides a common unified interface, and enterprises ensure that applications and interfaces remain the same when they operate on multiple public clouds.

Without security, there would be no clouds. Cisco can provide a variety of security solutions: internal protection of the network itself, traditional firewalls, OpenDNS, pre-cloud cleaning, and so on.

ACI is everywhere, from simplicity to richness.

Cisco is the leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant because of its strong vision and execution in terms of data center networking and superconvergence. To achieve the vision of a ubiquitous data center, Cisco has launched a wide range of innovations in the areas of networking, superconvergence, security, and automation, including:

Extend Cisco Application centric Infrastructure (ACI) to the cloud through the use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure environments, while extending Cisco ACI solutions to AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud platforms.

Extend HyperFlex to branch and remote offices to better support edge applications.

Extend the data center's application performance, security, and multi-cloud / hybrid cloud management capabilities through a range of software.

The Development process of ▲ ACI

Cisco ACI automates the data center while ensuring application flexibility. With the ubiquity of data, ACI has experienced multi-partition, multi-site, remote access, virtual ACI, and even cloud ACI. If the ACI of the cloud is fully covered, it can be called "ACI everywhere".

Wei Songbin pointed out, "whether enterprises want to go to the central data center, the edge of the data center, or to go to the cloud, they are all one. If an application involves each data center, without 'ACI everywhere', your intention can't go everywhere."

HyperFlex for Branch Offic

In the traditional virtualization infrastructure construction, computing, storage and network are separate, and super-convergence is the integration of computing, storage, network and virtualization resources. The super-fusion system is superior to the traditional SAN architecture in many aspects, such as the on-demand configuration of resources, the flexibility of architecture, the efficiency of deployment and management, the expansion of resources and so on.

At the same time, the super-converged system can also provide enterprise-class storage characteristics similar to the traditional SAN architecture, which ensures the high performance, high reliability and high availability of the virtualized system, and becomes a new choice for enterprise critical application virtualization. Cisco has its own unique understanding of the positioning and development of the super-convergence market, a very clear strategy for the development of super-integration products, and an extremely clear roadmap for the development of products in terms of function and technology.

The development process of ▲ Cisco HyperFlex superfusion

"in just three years, Cisco has released four generations of HyperFlex products. For each generation of products, Cisco has seen the development direction of super-integration and made the right decision, becoming the main driving force for the development of super-integration market and leading the development direction of industry integration." Wei Songbin said.

In the newly released version of HX4.0, Cisco has implemented "HyperFlex everywhere". HyperFlex architecture can also be used in ultra-light load and edge computing. But using the same architecture, managing the super-converged infrastructure of the data center and the edge is an extremely complex task. The HX4.0 version takes HyperFlex technology to the edge.

In this way, computing, storage, and networking can be converged using the same architecture of HyperFlex, whether in the core data center, in the public cloud, private cloud, or at the edge. Through the core management platform Intersight this software for centralized management, regardless of the number of data centers, size, location, design, planning, deployment and operation and maintenance management is completely consistent.

ACI and HyperFlex are ubiquitous, direct responses to ubiquitous data, and the most important foundation. But these are not enough. Cloudy, security and application management are higher-level requirements. Based on this, Cisco provides multi-faceted enhancement and expansion on the basic platform through software in different areas. They have been integrated to varying degrees with ACI and HyperFlex to more effectively perform the overall business functions of the data center.

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