At-a-Glance
Cisco ONE Foundation
for Compute
Simplify IaaS and Operations Management
Benefits
• Automate routine tasks with a
software-defined approach that
significantly reduces operational
and administrative costs.
• Unify management across
the data center, private and
public cloud, and edge-scale
environments.
• Increase efficiency to make IT
teams more agile and flexible
and respond quickly to business
needs.
• Integrate smoothly with a wide
range of existing management
tools and third-party hardware.
• Mitigate risk by helping
ensure that best practices are
implemented through policydriven automation.
The Cisco ONE™ Foundation for Compute software suite offers a
comprehensive management stack for infrastructure as a service
(IaaS) and IT operations management (ITOM). It provides a unified
method of managing infrastructure in the data center, private or
public cloud, and edge computing environments. The software suite
integrates transparently with a broad ecosystem of Cisco® and thirdparty management tools. This helps ensure that IT organizations can
preserve their existing investments in management applications and
processes during their transition to newer infrastructure, operational,
and consumption models.
The unified and holistic management capabilities of Cisco ONE
Foundation for Compute are strengthened by a broad, mature partner
ecosystem that provides many of the essential components for greater
automation and efficiency. This integration drives significant savings in
operating expenses (OpEx) while reducing the risks associated with
changing operations and administration. IT organizations can implement
more agile operational and consumption models, so they can move
faster and become more proactive responding to the demands of the
business.
Figure 1. Examples of Partner Solutions in the Cisco ONE Foundation for Compute
Ecosystem
Cisco ONE Foundation for
Compute
UCS Director
UCS Central
Intercloud
Fabric
Energy
Management
Cisco UCS
Policy-Driven
Infrastructure
Blades, Rack &
Modular Servers
Prime Service
Catalog
UCS Performance
Manager
Open API
Unified
Management
Holistic
Management
Across UCS
Systems
Across the
Data Center
Microsoft
System Center
bmc
Splunk
Examples of
Partner Ecosystem
ca
Nimble Storage
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EMC
HP
VMware
NetApp
SimpliVity
IBM
VCE
nce
At-a-Glance
Independent analyst firm, IDC,
stated in a recent report:
Table 1. Software Components and Capabilities of Cisco ONE Foundation for Compute
Product
Capabilities
“Cisco is operating from a
point of strength in creating a
service-enabled, subscriptionbased portfolio to satisfy the
needs of its customers. It is
leveraging its depth in system
infrastructure capabilities to
push the boundaries of the
hybrid cloud delivery model.
Infrastructure as-a-Service (IaaS)
Its new, solution-focused and
more flexible model enables
customers to buy exactly what
they need from Cisco ONE
Software.”
Cisco UCS Performance
Manager
Monitors health and performance for Cisco UCS
servers, hypervisors, and local storage plus offers
capacity planning to optimize resource utilization
Energy Management (Cisco
JouleX)
Manages energy consumption of physical and virtual
resources to improve utilization and reduce operating
expenses
IDC White Paper sponsored by Cisco,
“Driving Better Business Outcomes
in the 3rd Platform Era of IT: Cisco’s
Software Strategy,” April 2015,
IDC 255580
Next Steps
Cisco and our industry-leading
partners deliver services that help you
migrate to Cisco’s unified computing
architecture. They can help you
optimize ongoing operations to better
meet your business needs.
For more information, please visit:
• Cisco ONE Foundation for Data
Center
• Cisco UCS Management
Cisco UCS® Central Software
Extends Cisco UCS Manager across multiple domains
and supports up to 6000 servers
Cisco UCS Director
Orchestrates and provisions bare-metal and virtual
resources across Cisco and third party infrastructure
Cisco Prime™ Service Catalog
Provides self-service portal and service lifecycle
management, making ordering IaaS easy
Cisco Intercloud Fabric™ for
Business
Extends private IaaS to the public cloud with one-year
subscription to four hybrid cloud ports
IT Operations Management (ITOM)
Simplified and Open Management
Increasing complexity can often reduce the efficiency of IT organizations.
Over time, organizations have purchased management software
from multiple vendors, reinforcing the existence of operational silos.
Cisco ONE Foundation for Compute offers an open, heterogeneous
management suite for IaaS and ITOM that dramatically simplifies
infrastructure and operations management. It addresses the full range
of management requirements while helping make procuring and
administrating software easier and more cost effective. With Cisco ONE
Foundation for Compute, end users gain greater efficiencies and ease of
use, because the software works well together as well as in conjunction
with existing management tools. By reducing inefficiencies, you can
significantly reduce OpEx and lower your total cost of ownership (TCO).
Instead of a piecemeal approach to IT operations and administration,
Cisco ONE Foundation for Compute offers a unified set of capabilities in
the management stack. These capabilities provide the foundation for the
efficient delivery of IaaS, helping ensure that IT organizations meet their
service-level agreements (SLAs) with optimized operations management.
Cisco ONE Foundation for Compute is part of the Cisco ONE for
Data Center portfolio. You can upgrade easily to the Cisco ONE
Enterprise Cloud Suite (ECS) to automate applications through design,
configuration, and deployment of complete stacks, virtually eliminating
manual provisioning and deprovisioning.
Cisco’s innovative approach to unified infrastructure and operations
management with Cisco ONE Foundation for Compute gives
organizations significant business benefits and OpEx savings while
reducing risk. These benefits can help your organization efficiently
transition to new business and operational models, helping IT make your
enterprise and organization more competitive.
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