Asperitas and Cisco confirm Engineering Alliance partnership

Asperitas and Cisco are further strengthening their collaboration, with Asperitas joining the Cisco Engineering Alliance partnership program. The program is designed to offer customers a smooth journey in their Immersed Computing® adoption from standalone edge facilities to large scale deployments by offering pre-validated solutions. The partnership will integrate Asperitas' Perpetual Natural Convection (PNC) and Direct Forced Convection (DFC) products with Cisco Unified Compute System (UCS).  

The partnership was announced on the first day of Cisco Live EMEA. At the show, Asperitas is presenting the first solution in the DFCX product line, the DFCX1, which enables high performance compute at the edge in both on-premise and datacentre locations. The DFCX1 product offers best in class immersion cooling performance while being extremely energy efficient.  

Through Cisco's streamlined engineering validation process, Asperitas is providing proven and tested immersion cooling capabilities that integrate seamlessly across business entities. As part of Cisco's open ecosystem, the company is working alongside diverse partners to create interoperable solutions that drive customer success in high-growth markets. The partnership combines Asperitas' expertise in thermal management, specifically immersion cooling, with Cisco's industry-leading infrastructure to deliver solutions customers can deploy with confidence.

"Technology ecosystems are key to accelerating innovation," said Fabio Gori, Vice President of Engineering Alliances at Cisco. "By bringing together some of the most advanced technologies across industries, we're solving complex challenges across industries, from the campus to the data center. Our Engineering Alliances program transforms these partnerships into solutions that customers can deploy with confidence, accelerating time-to-value and simplifying adoption".  

Maikel Bouricius, Chief Growth Officer at Asperitas commented: "Asperitas and Cisco have been successfully working together on various projects, and this partnership enables us to continue to innovate together and support customers. We strongly believe that ecosystem development is a key part of our growth strategy by creating a best in class consortium. We are proud to see a global leading OEM like Cisco supporting the immersion cooling market development."

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