Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) Announced Partnership With Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) And Georgian Partners

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) has signed a multi-year sales and go-to-market deal with Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference yesterday. According to the agreement, the two companies involved seek to revolutionize modern data centers by providing accelerated integration solutions.

Both the companies have been engaged in developing solutions to improve industry functions and accelerate growth. In their latest endeavor, they will be exploiting their resources, investing in sales, marketing and engineering so as to boost global alignment. The agreement aims at providing enhanced technological integration via cloud computing and data center markets. Cisco and Microsoft will focus on bringing together various marketing technologies including the former’s Unified Computing System™ and Cisco Nexus® switching. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) will also combine its Cloud OS solutions such as Microsoft Azure, SQL Server, System Center and Windows Server.

The go-to-market plan is a three-year strategy which is aimed at transforming data centers. In the first year of the plan, the focus will be on six countries- Australia, France, Germany, UK, Canada and the US. Sales teams of both the companies will join to explore the opportunities in cloud and data center markets. This will include an up-gradation of Windows 2003 customers to Windows 2012 R2, which will be based on the Cisco UCS® platform.

In the proposed integrated solutions scheme, the focus will be on private cloud, service provider, server migration and SQL Server 2014. Apart from the various technologies that Cisco will adopt from its businesses, it will also bring its infrastructure solutions such as FlexPod with NetApp, as well as the company’s solutions for EMC VXPEX.

Apart from the tie-up with Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), Cisco Systems, Inc.  (NASDAQ :CSCO) also announced partnering with growth equity firm, Georgian Partners, yesterday. The partnership concerns a strategic investment in their latest fund, Georgian Partners Growth Fund II, LP. The firm invests in growing software companies.