Do your data center administrators lose more than 5% of company time on manual procedures for rudimentary tasks?
Data center virtualization has created a market transition where IT organizations are trying to reduce costs and increase flexibility. 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 Gb 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 (TCO) 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
It supports an incremental deployment model and protects customer investments with a future migration path to unified computing.
Data Center
Cisco Data Center Business Advantage represents an architectural framework for connecting technology innovation to business innovation. It is the foundation of the Dynamic Networked Organization.
Innovate Quickly and Efficiently
Cisco Data Center Business Advantage represents a fundamental shift in the role of IT into a driver of business innovation. Businesses can create services faster, become more agile, and take advantage of new revenue streams and business opportunities. Cisco Data Center Business Advantage increases efficiency and profitability by reducing capital, operating expenses and complexity. It also transforms how a business approaches its market and how IT supports and aligns with the business, to help enable new and innovative business models.
Keep Control of Your Data Center Architecture
The Cisco Data Center Business Advantage architectural framework is delivered as a portfolio of technologies and systems that can be adapted to meet organizational needs. You can adopt the framework in an incremental and granular fashion to control when and how you implement data center innovations. This allows you to easily evolve and adapt the data center to keep pace with changing organizational needs.
VDI
Organizations must manage and secure a large, complex, and globally distributed remote, and mobile computing environment all accessing corporate assets housed within the corporate network as well as corporate assets/resources housed and maintained in a 3rd party service providers infrastructure; The loss of visibility and control again forces them to look to how they can better maintain the health and security of their mobile computing environment – the endpoints that require access to corporate resources that are housed inside of the corporate network and in the “cloud”.
The reality is that a mobile sales force using mobile devices to access a SaaS CRM application in real-time while on the road or an SE being able to quickly resolve a demo problem through the use of IM is powerful and important to productivity and IT must move from limiting the use of new technologies and instead look to enable and support them. The problem is that most IT organizations simply cannot manage a mobile computing environment, in fact the entire NAC market was an industry response to the inability of IT to manage mobile computing environments, so instead of trying to implement a method to manage the unmanageable the industry decided it would be best to simply block access to corporate resources until the asset could be determined to meet a base level of security – really, seriously, that was a good idea? IT must learn to manage a mobile computing environment as simply an extension of their corporate networks or they will face severe problems of availability, support costs, and security incidents in the coming years.
