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Cisco has announced innovations across the Cisco Unified Computing System to deliver a third-generation fabric computing platform– which integrates network, compute, virtualisation and management– to address these challenges and help customers respond rapidly to changing business needs, scale their datacentres, and accelerate transition to virtualisation and cloud computing.
The Cisco UCS third-generation fabric computing platform incorporates the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family and includes multiple server form factors delivering the industry’s highest server density and efficiency, with up to eight times the memory capacity and four times the I/O compared to previous UCS servers. The Cisco UCS Manager now allows IT administrators to manage both blade and rack servers as a common entity, and extends the management domain to span thousands of servers across datacentres around the world.
Through enhanced integration with Cisco Unified Fabric technology, Cisco UCS Manager now unifies management for both blade and rack servers within a single domain. This industry-first capability reduces the cost of server connectivity, provides resource flexibility, and allows IT administrators to add datacentre capacity without additional complexity.
In the second half of 2012, Cisco will introduce technology to support large-scale UCS deployments through centralised management for multiple UCS domains, spanning thousands of servers either in a single datacentre or spread across data centers around the world, providing industry-leading automation and orchestration for cloud environments. Cisco UCS Integrated Networking and Virtualisation.
“Our customers care most about time-to-deploy business applications, application performance and unified management of bare metal, virtualised and private/public cloud environments,” said Soni Jiandani, senior vice president, Data Center Group, Cisco. “Cisco pioneered fabric computing and service profiles – still not duplicated by any other vendor- which allow IT managers to deploy applications in minutes instead of days. Now with innovations in UCS Manager their integrated management spans rack and blade servers, and scales across data centers to thousands of servers globally. Our open system allows for structured integration with partner and customer solutions, making the Cisco UCS and the Unified Data Center a strong foundation for rapid deployment, performance, scalability, and ease of management.”