The Power of

THREEHow Cisco, Intel and SUSE Can Accelerate Your Journey to a Secure, State-of-the-ArtPrivate Cloud

GROWTHis driving widespread adoption of cloud computing. Cloud is growing as a way to cope with the rapid growth in users, devices, data and tra�c, while at the same time helping IT and businesses become more e�cient and agile.

By 2015, IDC expects that more than...

3 Billionconnected users

15 Billionconnected devices

1,500exabytes

of cloud tra�c

and nearly the sameamount of data will be

stored and/or processedvia clouds

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To keep up, IT must seek ways to improve e�ciency while being more responsive to the business.

will be driving in excess of

The importance of a private cloud:

E�ciency Cost SavingsAgility

Why

OpenStack?OpenStack is a global collaboration of develop-ers and cloud computing technologists producing the ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds.

The OpenStack Foundation promotes the development, distribution and adoption of the OpenStack cloud operating system. As the independent home for OpenStack, the Foundation has already attracted more than...

12,000Individualmembers

from...

130Countries

and..

850Di�erent

Organizations

and is ready to fulfill the OpenStack mission of becoming the ubiquitouscloud computing platform.

Bottom-Line Benefits From These Vendors’ Collaboration

WORK CITED

1. “Extracting Value from Chaos,” IDC, June 20112. Gartner Symposium/IT Expo, October 2012

Accelerate integration and optimization of cloud technology to serve LOBs

Dramatic simplification enables rapid OpenStack deployment

Unparalleled flexibility supports a growing cloud ecosystem

Ongoing contributions of open source community

Ongoing support of key technology vendors

90%of tech spending will be in the

hands of business units rather than IT itself.

Gartner forecasts that by 2020

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Cisco, Intel and SUSE have a long history of collaboration that has

extended to the private cloud throughthe integration of key technologies that makerunning OpenStack easier for the enterprise.

Together, Cisco, Intel and SUSE o�er both hardware and software that are designed to help IT derive

maximum benefit from their open cloud.

HARDWARE SOFTWARE

The SUSE Cloud installation framework’s integration with the Cisco UCS Manager simplifies the development of an OpenStack private cloud.

SUSE Cloud runs on top of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, a certified Linux OS for all Cisco UCS servers, enabling organizations to lever-age Cisco’s unified, flexible ap-proach to OpenStack for the rapid delivery of cloud infrastructure.

Enterprises benefit from 24x7 world-wide support from a provenenterprise open source vendor, withfull support of Cisco’s OpenStacknetworking drivers and plug-ins to en-hance the functionality of their cloud.

Enterprises also benefit fromresource balancing andperformance optimization that Intel Xeon processors bring to CiscoUCS servers.

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How Cisco, Intel and SUSE Ease IT’s Transition to a Private Cloud

Benefits include:

Unprecedented

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