TINLEY PARK, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PANDUIT Corp., a global leader in unified physical infrastructure management, announces its participation as a platinum sponsor of Cisco’s Data Center of the Future (DCoF) program, which features the industry’s latest technology innovations for the data center.

PANDUIT and Cisco are working together to develop solutions that help customers manage risk within the physical infrastructure by intelligently converging physical and logical systems. The Data Center of the Future program is the latest venue by which these solutions are being communicated to a wider industry audience.

Cisco Data Center of the Future Live Events are taking place across two continents, highlights include India - Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore - Taiwan, Malaysia, Canada and the United States. In addition, on-line virtual events are taking place on April 29^th and July 23^rd. For the complete and current list of events visit www.thedcofthefuture.com and click on the calendar.

At these events PANDUIT will deliver its Unified Physical Infrastructure (UPI) vision for the data center. UPI-based solutions leverage an integrated physical infrastructure as the foundation to enable convergence across communication, computing, control, power and security systems while reducing downtime risks, increasing flexibility, and reducing costs. PANDUIT will showcase its next-generation high speed data transport capabilities which provide a comprehensive solution to connect logical systems and exceed the stringent bandwidth demands associated with consolidation and virtualization in the data center.

At one of the key breakout sessions during the Cisco Data Center of the Future Live Events, PANDUIT will discuss how decisions made today on the network physical layer affect the ability of the data center to scale and address tomorrow’s requirements. PANDUIT will present a virtual tour of a mission critical data center and showcase key elements of the logical and physical infrastructure. The relationship and mapping of key physical layer elements to centralized, logical computing environments to achieve greater operational efficiencies will be discussed.

“Our participation in the Data Center of the Future program is another milestone in the ongoing PANDUIT-Cisco relationship,” says Vineeth Ram, VP of Global Marketing, PANDUIT. “This program allows PANDUIT and Cisco to showcase physical-logical infrastructure best practices to reduce cost, and improve efficiency and productivity by addressing key data center challenges around space, speed, power and cooling in both mature and emerging markets around the globe. We will feature our industry leading high speed data transport capabilities and integrated physical infrastructure management solutions that enable our customers to make smart choices to future-proof their investments.”

The most recent validation of the PANDUIT-Cisco relationship is the UPI-based physical infrastructure reference architectures for the Cisco Nexus 7000 and 5000 Series of switches (www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps9402/ps9512/brochure_panduit_DC_infrastructur_topologies.pdf). These reference architectures define the physical layer path forward to enable I/O consolidation over a unified 10 Gb/s fabric. When used together, Cisco Nexus Series switches and modular, scalable PANDUIT physical infrastructure systems enable business agility and yield best-in-class performance within your data center.

About PANDUIT:

PANDUIT is a world-class developer and provider of leading-edge solutions that help customers optimize the physical infrastructure through simplification, agility, and operational efficiency. PANDUIT’s Unified Physical Infrastructure (UPI) based solutions give enterprises the capabilities to connect, manage, and automate communications, computing, power, control and security systems for a smarter, unified business foundation. Strong relationships with technology leaders complemented with its global staff and unmatched service and support, make PANDUIT a valuable and trusted partner. (www.panduit.com)

About DCoF:

The event, “Data Center of the Future”, is designed to help you learn more about how to architect your Data Center by using Cisco technology and best practices and aims at demonstrating how Cisco is collaborating with key Data Center technology partners. (www.thedcofthefuture.com)