Cisco Systems has released new products and professional services, designed to assist customers with virtualization efforts for data center operational and energy efficiency.

The company states that the new offerings make the virtual network an efficient platform for delivering data center services - accelerating, providing security, and orchestrating application delivery networks, servers, virtualized computing, and storage, while providing greater responsiveness and resource conservation.

John McCool, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cisco Data Center, Switching and Services Group, and co-chair of the Cisco EcoBoard noted, ''Real-time collaborative applications, energy concerns and the need to achieve greater efficiency from assets are driving IT managers to transform their data centers through new technologies. By providing virtualization technologies across the data center, Cisco aims to help businesses achieve the agility and resiliency they need to compete on a global scale.''