Cisco announced that Nice Systems, provider of intent-based solutions that extract insight to impact business performance, reduce financial risk and help ensure safety and security, has completed the first integration of Cisco blade servers in Israel in its quality assurance and development lab at the company headquarters in Ra'anana. The newly integrated data centre architecture has enabled Nice Systems to develop a unified information centre to fully realize the power of virtualization.

The unified architecture has enabled Nice Systems to build a Cisco Unified Computing System, combining computing, communications and storage connectivity capabilities with virtualization resources. By combining a number of independent server environments that had evolved within the R&D lab over time as new services were required, the Cisco Unified Computing System allows Nice Systems to deploy new services almost immediately. At the same time, this will reduce power and cooling costs, consolidate physical infrastructure and simplify management significantly.