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February 2017 Economic and Performance Differences Why Cisco UCS

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Page 1: Why Cisco UCS

February 2017

Economic and Performance Differences

Why Cisco UCS

Page 2: Why Cisco UCS

Cisco UCS is different

Business Impact

Performance

Architecture & Management

Power & Cooling

Page 3: Why Cisco UCS

Cisco Confidential 3© 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.Business Impact

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• Cisco UCS: Changing the Economics of the Datacenter

Connecting UCS technology innovations to TCO improvement

• The Total Economic Impact™ Of Cisco Unified Computing System

Cost Savings And Business Benefits Enabled By Cisco UCS - Forrester

“The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of the Cisco UCS on their organizations.”

• The Total Economic Impact of the SmartStack Integrated Infrastructure Solution

• IDC: The Business Value of Cisco UCS as a Platform for SAP HANA and Other SAP Mission-Critical Applications

Business Impact

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• IDC: The Business Value of Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data

• EMA: How Small and Midsize Data Centers Can Benefit from Unified Infrastructure

• Cisco in Your Data Center

The Optimal Infrastructure for Microsoft Environments and Applications

More Business Impact

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• IDC: The Business Value of Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure Solutions for Running SAP Workloads

• IDC: Assessing the Business Value of Cisco’s Desktop and Application Virtualization Solution

• IDC: Considering Cisco UCS as a Preferred Platform for SAP HANA

• All Data Center Case Studies

Even More Business Impact

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Grupo Industrial Saltillo (GIS) increases revenue and productivity with a unified data center solution

“We’ve also reduced IT costs by 60 percent, freeing up capital to fund new projects and drive revenue,” says Izquierdo.

José Izquierdo

Manager of IT Planning and Operations

GIS

Case Study Link

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Performance

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• East-West Latency

• UCS Outperforms Dell on East-West Traffic and Latency

• Cisco UCS Outperforms IBM Flex System Blades on East-West Network Latency

• Cisco UCS Outperforms HP Blade Servers on East-West Latency

• Network Scaling Cost Analysis: Cisco UCS and IBM Flex System80 Gbps Bandwidth for 79% Less

• Cisco UCS: Meeting the Growing Need for Bandwidth

• Cisco UCS Blades Deploy 77 Percent Faster with 67 Percent Fewer Steps than HP Blades

• Cisco UCS Migrates Blade Identities to Rack Servers with 83% Fewer Steps than HP

White Papers

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• Cisco UCS Super-Powers All Oracle Environments

• Videos

• Cisco UCS Blades Deploy 77 Percent Faster with 67 Percent Fewer Steps than HP Blades

• Cisco UCS Migrates Blade Identities to Rack Servers with 83% Fewer Steps than HP

• Splunk CEO Highlights the Benefits of Cisco UCS for Big Data

• MSA Cisco UCS Customer Success Story

• Cisco Unified Computing System and Intel Xeon Processors: 100 World-Record Performance Results [summary doc]

• All Cisco UCS Benchmarks

More on Performance

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“One of our successes is measured on how well IT operations serves customers. Technology plays a critical role in making us a leader.”

One of our successes is measured on how well IT operationsserves customers. Technology plays a critical role in makingus a leader.”- Hans Keril Ante, IT Security and Compliance Department Manager; andInfrastructure Lead for INSEE Smart Project Release 1 (Greenfield Project)Siam City Cement PCL

“During the stress-test phase of the

INSEE SMART project, an additional 30

servers were immediately required. The

team was able to provision the servers in

less than 3 hours.”

Case Study Link

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Cisco Confidential 12© 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Management and Architecture

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• Architectural Comparison: Cisco UCS and the Dell FX2 Platform

• Cisco UCS Architecture and Management: Comparison with IBM Flex System

• Virtualizing Hadoop in Large-Scale Infrastructures

How Adobe Systems achieved breakthrough results in Big Data analytics with Hadoop-as-a-Service

• Seven Reasons Why Cisco UCS Is Better for Your Business Than White-Box Servers [Solution Brief]

• Cisco UCS Director Delivers IaaS: A Comparison with HPE OneView

White Papers (continued)

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• UCS vs. HP OneView | Blade and Rack Server Firmware Management

• UCS vs. HP OneView | Enterprise Roles Based Access Control and Security

• UCS vs. HP OneView | Managing Profiles Across Server Types and Generations

• UCS vs. HP OneView | Profile Automation with Templates and Resource Pools

• UCS vs. HP OneView | Stateless Profile Migrations and Upgrades

Videos

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“We needed a technology standard and a partner that could help us intelligently manage the growth we expected and have since experienced.”

“We’re spending far less time on

hardware management—the

equivalent of nearly two full-time

employees,” says Dawson. “That’s

allowing us to focus 90 percent of

our team’s efforts on creating new

tools and adding value.”

Grant Dawson

Vice president, Information Technology

T2 Systems.

Case Study Link

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Power & Cooling

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• All Server Power Calculators are Not Created Equally

The video exposes how manufacturers misuse power calculators to underestimate server power consumption and assert that their servers are more energy efficient

Video

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“We chose Cisco HyperFlex because Cisco UCS and networking technologies are best-of breed.”

Moving to a hyperconverged

infrastructure is helping Ready Pac

Foods reduce operating expenses

(OpEx), enabling the company to cancel

more than $30,000 worth of annual

extended support contracts on legacy

equipment.

“We’re saving more than $50,000 a

year in power and cooling costs on

top of that,” says Myers.

Mark Myers

Director, Information Technology

Ready Pac Foods

Case Study Link

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