Cisco and Ingram Micro have instigated Asia's first Cisco Center for Unified Computing in Singapore.

Officials with Cisco said that the center would supply Ingram Micro's customers and channel partners with a next-generation data center podium that would supplementary hasten the deliverance of new services simply, dependably and with a high grade of security through end-to-end provisioning and migration support.

Company officials said that as the revolutionary resolution center in the region, the Cisco Center for Unified Computing would be a test bed for Cisco partners to replicate real-life scenarios in a heterogeneous hardware and software application surroundings.

Irving Tan, Managing Director for Singapore and Brunei at Cisco, said that with business requirements increasing and the IT budget staying where it is, organizations were looking for a solution that would allow them to quickly scale and reallocate resources when they were not in use.

Tan said that the Cisco Center for Unified Computing would be an enormous showcase of solutions with the Company’s partners, and it reaffirmed relationship with Ingram Micro and validated the exact for a platform that would connect computation, the network, and virtualization.

“We used this opportunity to develop a platform that will optimize virtualization and reduce the complexity of managing the data center. The launch of the Cisco Center for Unified Computing at Ingram Micro is a realization of that market opportunity, and we are excited to offer these solutions first to customers and partners in Singapore,” said Andre Smit, Managing Director for Cisco data center sales in Asia.