Cisco Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Provider Getting Started Guide
At-A-Glance
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Deliver a Complete Hybrid Cloud Solution to Your Customers
There are times when your customers wish they could expand their data centers.
It happens when they need more computing and storage capacity than their own
facilities provide. Perhaps it is the end of a quarter, and summing-up and reporting
applications are using all their center’s computing power, and less crucial uses are
sidelined. Or they’re getting ready for holiday shopping, and they need enough
capacity to process many more sales than usual. Perhaps they just want more capacity
in general without having to build out their own data centers.
It happens when they need more computing and storage capacity than their own
facilities provide. Perhaps it is the end of a quarter, and summing-up and reporting
applications are using all their center’s computing power, and less crucial uses are
sidelined. Or they’re getting ready for holiday shopping, and they need enough
capacity to process many more sales than usual. Perhaps they just want more capacity
in general without having to build out their own data centers.
Expanding data center capacity can be challenging, but Cisco has a solution. Cisco®
Intercloud Fabric for Providers allows your customers to extend their data and
applications into your public cloud with the same performance, security, policies, and
workload control that they have in their own data centers.
Intercloud Fabric for Providers allows your customers to extend their data and
applications into your public cloud with the same performance, security, policies, and
workload control that they have in their own data centers.
Cisco Intercloud Fabric lets you offer your customers not simply more capacity, but
peace of mind with a complete cloud solution residing on your infrastructure that
incorporates private, virtual private, and public resources for a hybrid environment that
offers the best of all these approaches. You don’t have to compete only on commodity
services: you can differentiate your offering as a premium service as well as provide a
robust set of cloud deployment options (Figure 1).
peace of mind with a complete cloud solution residing on your infrastructure that
incorporates private, virtual private, and public resources for a hybrid environment that
offers the best of all these approaches. You don’t have to compete only on commodity
services: you can differentiate your offering as a premium service as well as provide a
robust set of cloud deployment options (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Providers: Main Benefits
Remove Friction
Enterprise On-boarding
Secure, Scalable
Connectivity to Extend
Enterprise to Public Cloud
Workload Mobility to easily
move apps to provider
infrastructure
Unified Hybrid Cloud
Management to manage
workloads across Enterprise
and Provider clouds
Business and
Technology Value
Differentiation
Managed Hybrid Cloud
Service offering for the
Enterprise
One-Stop Shop for
hosted/dedicated/elastic
consumption models
Advanced Workload
Security and Bare-metal
Mobility for Cisco Powered
Expand
Cloud Services
Value Added Services
Country Compliance Service
to ensure Enterprise
workloads stay within
regional boundaries
Offer New Services for
Disaster Recovery,
Applications-onboarding, etc.
Offer Advanced Networking
and Security services
The Growing Trend toward Hybrid Clouds
Companies are increasingly adopting hybrid deployment options.
• They need the flexibility to add more capacity on demand without enlarging their
data centers.
• They want added capacity to be available temporarily and to be able to use more or
less capacity as needed.
• They need their extra capacity to behave just as it does in their data centers and
internal clouds.
• They need to control costs and ensure security.
• Public clouds offer savings over building out a company’s own data center, and
• Public clouds offer savings over building out a company’s own data center, and
hybrid clouds can offer security and privacy.
The use of hybrid clouds is expected to grow. 70 percent of enterprise customers
surveyed by the Gartner Group in 2012 said their companies would pursue a hybrid
cloud strategy by 2015.
surveyed by the Gartner Group in 2012 said their companies would pursue a hybrid
cloud strategy by 2015.
What Do You Need?
Give Your Customers Flexibility and Control, Build Deeper Relationships with Your
Customers, and Differentiate Your Services
Customers, and Differentiate Your Services
Customers have many options for public clouds, and Cisco Intercloud Fabric for
Providers can give your customers more reasons to choose your cloud services. Your
customers can:
Providers can give your customers more reasons to choose your cloud services. Your
customers can:
• Extend their workloads into your public cloud, expanding their own data centers
while retaining control over both the on-premises operations and the parts of their
workloads residing in your cloud
workloads residing in your cloud
• Occupy a portion of your public cloud that is dedicated to them as a private cloud,
using it as their entire data center; they don’t need any on-premises facility
• If you are already managing their on-premises data center, extend that data center
into your public cloud, which you also manage
Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Providers is designed to be versatile and to make it easy for
you to structure these different types of services and provide service differentiation.
you to structure these different types of services and provide service differentiation.