5 Key Benefits of a Unified Data Center

5 of a Unified Data Center

KEY BENEFITS

Built for the intensive demands of cloud, big data, and on-demand IT, Cisco UCS is a server platform that unifies: compute networking storage access virtualization

to give you:

greater scalability easier infrastructure management IT-as-a-service agility

Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) —At a Glance

Efficiency Gains

*SOURCE: Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS): Changing the Economics of the Datacenter, Cisco, 2013

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reduction in provisioning times*

reduction of cabling*

reduction of ongoing management costs*

reduction of power and cooling costs*

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Cisco UCS Manager allows you to manage your entire infrastructure as a single entity. Managers of storage, networking, and servers easily collaborate to define service profiles for applications.

A True “Single Pane of Glass”2

According to a 2013 survey, most midsize to large organizations put 70% of their IT budgets towards “keeping the lights on” as opposed to strategic initiatives.*

UCS helps you dramatically reduce time and resources spent on infrastructure maintenance by streamlining data center resources, scaling service delivery, and radically reducing hardware requiring setup.

*Maximizing the Value of Information Technology, CFO Research and Alix Partners, March 2013

Go from IT Maintainer to Strategist3

With compute, networking, storage access, and virtualization all unified in one cohesive platform, UCS lets you scale up modularly from one server to thousands without adding new complexity in management.

Grow in Scale, Not Complexity4

On the UCS platform, new servers can be ready for production in less than 20 minutes, not the days or weeks of traditional infrastructure. Prolonged outages of mission critical applications are eliminated and new resources can be delivered to users right when they’re needed.

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