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Customer Case Study
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
ITOCHU TECHNO-SOLUTIONS
CORPORATION (CTC)
BUSINESS CHALLENGE
BUSINESS CHALLENGE
● Deliver high-performance, easy-to-manage
cloud services to businesses
● Help ensure data center scalability for the
future
● Implement disaster recovery and load
balancing between two identical data centers
NETWORK SOLUTION
● Cisco Unified Computing System
● Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches with FCoE
● Cisco UCS Manager
● Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches with FCoE
● Cisco UCS Manager
BUSINESS RESULTS
● Delivers services from one architecture with
a single team
● Gained agility to tailor cloud services and
resources specifically to multiple customers
● Gained power and scalability to support any
customer application
Provider Tailors Cloud Services to Customers’
Applications
ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC) implements end-to-end Fibre Channel
over Ethernet (FCoE) fabric to support next-generation cloud services.
Business Challenge
ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC) provides a wide range
of computer, network, IT, and systems integration services for
business customers in Japan. The company’s Cloud Platform Group
recently launched its innovative ElasticCUVIC shared private cloud
service, which helps customers reduce infrastructure cost and
management complexity through predesigned, prebuilt, and
pretested cloud offerings.
of computer, network, IT, and systems integration services for
business customers in Japan. The company’s Cloud Platform Group
recently launched its innovative ElasticCUVIC shared private cloud
service, which helps customers reduce infrastructure cost and
management complexity through predesigned, prebuilt, and
pretested cloud offerings.
ElasticCUVIC offers standard IT resources and unique operational
capabilities. Customers can choose combinations of storage,
backup, disaster recovery, servers, and cluster services to meet
their specific needs. In addition, ElasticCUVIC provides a number
of operational features. The service can implement web,
application, database, and operating systems for customers; it can
provide operational capabilities, including job management,
monitoring, and antivirus features; and it can provide network
operations such as firewall, load balancing, and intrusion detection
and prevention services.
capabilities. Customers can choose combinations of storage,
backup, disaster recovery, servers, and cluster services to meet
their specific needs. In addition, ElasticCUVIC provides a number
of operational features. The service can implement web,
application, database, and operating systems for customers; it can
provide operational capabilities, including job management,
monitoring, and antivirus features; and it can provide network
operations such as firewall, load balancing, and intrusion detection
and prevention services.
ElasticCUVIC is delivered from five data centers across Japan. In the past, CTC had implemented Ethernet
connections between its data networks and storage area networks (SANs). However, as application demands
increased and customers increasingly needed more powerful compute capabilities and higher application
performance, CTC built its two newest data centers in Yokohama and Kobe with ultra-high performance and
flexibility in mind.
connections between its data networks and storage area networks (SANs). However, as application demands
increased and customers increasingly needed more powerful compute capabilities and higher application
performance, CTC built its two newest data centers in Yokohama and Kobe with ultra-high performance and
flexibility in mind.
The two data centers are connected to each other, and CTC wanted to implement disaster recovery and load-
balancing capabilities between them. With large numbers of virtual machines (VMs), CTC wanted to simplify its
data center architecture and IT management while optimizing scalability. The company evaluated several storage
networking solutions and turned to Cisco for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) solutions, which greatly simplify
the infrastructure and management.
balancing capabilities between them. With large numbers of virtual machines (VMs), CTC wanted to simplify its
data center architecture and IT management while optimizing scalability. The company evaluated several storage
networking solutions and turned to Cisco for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) solutions, which greatly simplify
the infrastructure and management.
Network Solution
CTC implemented an end-to-end FCoE architecture (Figure 1) using Cisco Nexus
®
7000 Series Switches, Cisco
Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS
®
) servers, and FCoE connections between the switches, servers, and
EMC FCoE storage arrays.