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Cisco Tops 10,000 Unified Computing System Customers; Captures 54 World Record Industry Benchmarks
Published Feb 6, 2012
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Cisco announced that in just over two years its new Unified Computing System, (UCS™) which integrates compute, networking, management and virtualization, has captured the attention of data center managers and CIOs alike– over 10,000 customers worldwide, including 3,000 in Europe, have deployed UCS. Many industry observers were skeptical that a new computing technology could take hold in this highly competitive market, but the cost and business benefits proved compelling across all industries and all workloads. Since it began shipping in July 2009, UCS has captured 54 industry benchmark performance world records, and garnered a dozen industry awards for innovation.
According to a recent Servers and Virtualization Study by TheInfoPro,™ Cisco took the lead among server vendors in vision, technical innovation, product performance, and sales force. 73 percent of survey respondents indicated they had switched to Cisco from their previous server vendor, while 82 percent planned increased UCS spending, and 36 percent spent more than $1 million in 2011.*
Cisco’s data center architecture is comprised of three pillars: Unified Computing, Unified Fabric, and Unified Management. This integrated architecture, the Cisco Unified Data Center, provides faster provisioning of new services, reduces total cost of ownership and transforms how IT supports business goals, creating a foundation for next generation data centers whether they are bare-metal, highly virtualized or cloud computing environments.
The 2011 Cisco Cloud Index forecasts that cloud computing is transforming business: over 50 percent of computing workloads in data centers are predicted to be cloud-based by 2014, and global cloud traffic will grow over 12 times by 2015, to 1.6 zettabytes per year – the equivalent of over four days of business-class video for every person on earth. This explosive cloud growth requires the advanced data center capabilities provided by UCS to support end-to-end cloud application delivery.
Designed from the ground up with a “clean slate” approach, Cisco UCS is an integrated solution designed to optimize compute, networking, storage access, virtualization and management. UCS tapped into a powerful market demand for a new approach to computing, enabling IT organizations to unleash new business models and discover new capabilities with its innovative data center fabric approach. UCS is the first fabric computing platform that combines industry-standard, x86-architecture servers with networking and storage access into a single converged system. Cisco works with industry leading infrastructure and software vendors, including BMC, CA, Citrix, EMC, Microsoft, NetApp, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP, VMware to provide pre-tested, end-to-end solutions.
Cisco UCS Facts
• ISV Partner Ecosystem
Independent software vendors are developing to the open Cisco UCS application programming interface (API), with over 10,000 applications supported today. UCS is an ideal platform for agile, on-demand delivery of IT resources: the UCS API enables cloud management software to quickly reconfigure computing, network, and storage access functions as business needs change.
• Cisco Unified Computing System Supports Green Data
Centers and Energy Efficiency
IT managers can achieve more energy efficient data centers with the Cisco Unified Computing System – it uses one-half the components, and requires less cabling and power/cooling than legacy servers. Over 30 Billion Kilowatt hours of energy per year could be saved by replacing aging traditional servers and support infrastructure through unified computing and virtualization in the data center. This equals the energy output of 15 U.S. coal-fired electric plants and 35 million tons of C02.
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VMD - [Virtual Marketing Department]
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