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Featured Unified Computing Products
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Blade Servers
Deliver a scalable and flexible architecture for current and future data center needs while helping to reduce total cost of ownership.
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UCS 5100 Series Blade Server Chassis
- Accommodates up to eight half-width, or four full-width Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers
- Facilitates deployment with unified fabric and fabric-extender technology for data centers
- Mounts in an industry-standard 19-inch rack, and uses standard front-to-back cooling
- Reduces physical components, requires no independent management, and improves energy efficiency
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Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers
- Maximizes performance, energy efficiency, and flexibility for demanding virtualized and non-virtualized applications
- Adapts processor performance to application demands and scales energy use based on utilization
- Uses network adapters for consolidated access to the unified fabric
- Reduces the number of adapters, cables, and access-layer switches needed for LAN and SAN connectivity
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Rack-Mount Servers
Address fluctuating workload challenges through a varying balance of processing, memory, I/O, and internal storage resources.
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Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Servers
- Helps reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase business agility
- Balances simplicity, performance, and density for production-level virtualization, web infrastructure, and data center workloads
- Extends Unified Computing innovations and benefits to rack-mounted servers
- Houses up to 16 internal disk drives for up to 8 terabytes of storage
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Fabric Interconnects
Create a single, highly available management domain with network connectivity and administrative capabilities that support all attached blades and chassis.
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Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnects
- Offers line-rate, low-latency, lossless 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) functions
- Reduces barriers to deployment of a fully virtualized environment for data center implementations
- Provides both the LAN and SAN connectivity for all blades within its domain
- Centralizes unified management with Cisco UCS Manager software
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UCS Manager
Simplify integration with third-party management software, or in-house-developed tools, and create an extensible management architecture.
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Cisco UCS Manager
- Manages the Cisco Unified Computing System as a single logical, highly available entity from end to end
- Provides flexible role- and policy-based management using service profiles and templates
- Helps improve IT productivity and business agility
- Simplifies infrastructure provisioning and shifts focus from maintenance to implementing strategic initiatives
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All Unified Computing Products
The Cisco Unified Computing System is built to meet today's demands while being ready to accommodate future technologies – including more powerful processors and faster Ethernet standards. The system helps to reduce total cost of ownership by automating element-management tasks through the use of service profiles that enable just-in-time provisioning.
Unified Computing Solutions
The Cisco Unified Computing System represents a radical simplification of traditional architectures, dramatically reducing the number of devices organizations must purchase, deploy, and maintain. Cisco UCS delivers end-to-end optimization for virtualized environments while retaining the ability to support traditional OS and application stacks in physical environments.
Solutions for Your Business
Deploy Cisco's class-leading, next-generation data center platform that unites computing, networking, storage access, and virtualization into one cohesive system.
Unified Computing System
Unite computing, networking, storage access, and virtualization into a cohesive system with a solution that decouples scale from complexity.
Infrastructure Consolidation
Improve agility and reduce costs by consolidating and relocating IT infrastructure quickly, cost-effectively, and with less risk.
Energy Efficient Data Centers
Adopt solutions that combine the manageability, energy, and space savings of a centralized infrastructure with the flexibility of a locally distributed system.
Business Continuance
Meet business continuance objectives by reducing the impact of localized disaster events and improving productivity through enhanced application and data availability.
Virtual Computing Environment
The Virtual Computing Environment coalition provides IT to help you move to private cloud. It helps simplify transition.
Cisco Services
Adopt service solutions to help define your deployment strategy, get the most from your unified computing investment, and maintain optimal performance.
Unified Computing Services
Get the expert help you need to plan, build, and run server virtualization, mobility management, stateless computing, application provisioning, and other solutions.
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At A Glance
The Cisco Unified Computing System is a next-generation data center platform that:
- Unites computing, networking, storage access, and virtualization into a cohesive system
- Integrates a low-latency, lossless 10 Gigabit Ethernet unified network fabric with enterprise-class, x86-architecture servers
This approach decouples scale from complexity. Whether the system has 1 server or 320 servers with thousands of virtual machines, all resources participate in a unified management domain designed to:
- Reduce total cost of ownership at the platform, site, and organizational levels
- Increase IT staff productivity and business agility through just-in-time provisioning and mobility support
The system incorporates:
- A standards-based unified network fabric supported by a partner ecosystem of industry leaders
- Cisco VN-Link virtualization support
- Cisco Extended Memory Technology
The Cisco Unified Computing System supports an incremental deployment model and protects customer investments with a future migration path to unified computing.
Featured Case Study
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Construction Company Changes Data Center Economics
Tutor Perini Corporation built its new data center with the Cisco Unified Computing System, reducing device count by 60 percent.
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Molina Healthcare Builds Data Center for the Future
Molina Healthcare consolidates its data centers to achieve savings, efficiency, and a greater competitive advantage.
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Transforming Evidence Management in Law Enforcement
TASER Virtual Systems provides online access to petabytes of evidence using Cisco Unified Computing System products.
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