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- Cisco Makes Server History, Changing Faces of Cloud Architecture by Distinctive Technology to Support Rapid Changes of Businesses
- Evolves Data Center Architectural Strategy to Simplify and Accelerate Virtualization for Cloud-Ready Architectures Leading Businesses to ‘Real Cloud Computing’
Cisco today innovates Unify Entire Data Center Infrastructure - from Servers to Storage; Fabric Extends Across Data Centers and to the Cloud. Also, announces technology innovations across its entire Data Center Business Advantage portfolio, including the Cisco Nexus? 7000 family and Nexus 5000 Series, the new ultra-low latency platform Cisco Nexus 3000, Cisco ? MDS storage switches, the Cisco Unified Computing SystemTM, the Cisco Data Center Network Manager, and Cisco NX-OS, the comprehensive data center operating system that spans the Cisco data center portfolio.
With these innovations, Cisco continues to tightly integrate its Unified Fabric, Unified Computing, and Unified Network Services into a holistic data center fabric designed to be simple, scalable and highly secure, delivering any application across any location, within the data center, across data centers, or to the cloud. Cisco has teamed with a diverse number of industry-leading technology companies to deliver a complete modular data center solution. Cisco is working with technology partners such as VMware, EMC and NetApp to deliver cloud computing, storage, virtualization and Cisco data center’s unique capabilities based on the Cisco Unified Computing System
The Cisco data center fabric enables converged network management and 'wire once' agility from the server to the storage array for both physical and virtualized environments. With these additions, Cisco further enhances the industry's most comprehensive and innovative standards-based data center portfolio, allowing multiple data centers and cloud services to be connected across a common intelligent fabric, delivering architectural flexibility, investment protection and operational simplicity.
NEWS HIGHLIGHTSUnified Fabric: The Power of End-to-End Network Convergence
- Enhanced Flexibility with New Cisco Nexus 5548UP, Nexus 5596UP switches. With Unified Port (UP) capability on all ports for these 48- and 96-port data center switches, information technology managers can designate any port to be 1 Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel (2/4/8 gigabits) or Fibre Channel over Ethernet, simplifying configuration and offering maximum flexibility for data center needs. These switches support Layer 2/3, provide support for IEEE 802.1Qbh, and are FabricPath-ready.
- Ultra Low Latency with Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches. The new Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches delivers industry leading low latency (less than 1usec port to port), in a high-density 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch for specific markets, such as high-frequency trading applications, where low latency is the No. 1 requirement. The one-rack-unit switch supports Layer 2/3 wire-rate switching and a wide range of routing protocols within the Cisco NX-OS operating system.
- Director-Class Multi-hop Fibre Channel over Ethernet. The Cisco Unified Fabric unites data center and storage networks to deliver a single high-performance, highly available and scalable network. Now Cisco is introducing end-to-end data center convergence from server to storage by delivering new director-class, multi-hop Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) capability for the Nexus 7000 data center switch platform and the MDS 9500 storage switching platform, adding to existing FCoE functionality on the Nexus 5000 switch platform. With the industry's broadest selection of standards-based FCoE switches, Cisco provides Unified Fabric support to both the access and core network layers, supporting all storage traffic (Fibre Channel, FCoE, iSCSI, and NAS) over simplified infrastructure based on lossless 10-Gigabit Ethernet.
- End-to-End Management With Cisco Data Center Network Manager. Cisco's new Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) enables SAN, LAN, and server teams to cohesively manage converged end-to-end data center networks up to 150,000 ports for provisioning, performance, and trouble-shooting, and offers tight integration with VMware vCenter.
Cisco Unified Computing System Portfolio Now Offers Nine Form Factors
- The Cisco Unified Computing System unites computation, network, storage access, and virtualization resources in a single cohesive system that reduces total overall cost and increases agility for both virtualized and non-virtualized data center environments. With more than 4,000 Cisco UCS customers, Cisco's pioneering vision for fabric-based computing is gaining industry recognition. A new Gartner report titled "Fabric Computing Poised as a Preferred Infrastructure for Virtualization and Cloud Computing" discusses this industry trend.
- Joining the portfolio, the innovative Cisco Unified Computing System C260 M2 Rack-Mount Server is designed to power transaction-intensive applications and offers Cisco Extended Memory Technology which doubles the memory capacity of comparable 2-socket traditional servers. Cisco also announced new versions of the Unified Computing System B230 M2, B440 M2, and C460 M2 that deliver improved virtualization performance and reduced latency, incorporating the next generation Intel? Xeon? processor family, codenamed Westmere EX.
Cisco Data Center Portfolio Enhancements
- Several new features and products enhance Cisco's data center portfolio while preserving investment protection for existing infrastructure. Additions for the Cisco Catalyst? 6500 series include a new Application Control Engine ACE30 module for dynamic workload scaling with Cisco Overlay Transport Virtualization which provides 54 percent higher performance for application delivery; a new ES40 module with 40 gigabit line-rate performance for high-performance Data Center Interconnect, and a new ASA Service module offering embedded firewall and security services.
- The new MDS 9000 Storage Media Encryption fabric service offers highly secure media encryption for disks as well as tapes to meet security requirements for regulatory compliance, and requires no SAN reconfiguration.
- The Nexus 1010 provides an NX-OS based appliance platform for hosting virtual services. This platform now supports two additional services: the Cisco Virtual Security Gateway which provides VM-level segmentation in a multi-tenant virtualized data center, and the Cisco Data Center Network Management Center
End-to-End Management With Cisco NX-OS
Designed for the evolution to cloud environments, Cisco's NX-OS data center operating system provides high availability, supports a unified data center fabric, advances virtualization, simplifies operations, and provides a platform for innovation while protecting existing technology investments. Spanning network, storage, and computational infrastructure, Cisco NX-OS now adds support for multihop Fibre Channel over Ethernet (an industry-first capability that enables multiple points of management to increase the scalability of unified fabrics.
Cisco now offers end-to-end data center convergence from server to storage by delivering new director-class, multi-hop Fibre channel over Ethernet (FCoE) capability for the Nexus 7000 and MDS 9500 platforms, joining the FCoE capability available on the Nexus 5000Cisco's Unified Computing System, which unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization resources in a single cohesive system, has a new family member with the new Cisco Unified Computing System C260 M2 Rack-Mount Server, the ideal solution for mission critical performance-intensive applications. “Cisco's latest advances with data center fabric convergence creates an end-to-end view of the virtualized data center network down to the virtual machine, helping to provide lower total cost of ownership, reduced complexity, better workload management and security in the cloud” said Mr. Vatsun Thirapatarapong, director of Commercial operations, Cisco Systems Thailand.
"Cisco makes Server a History by uniting computing, networking, and virtualization to lead the transformation of Data Center Virtualization with a new “Network-based architectural approach” which very distinctive in the industry, to improve utilization, power consumption, security of information and lowers the total cost to customers. Through Cisco Data Center Business Advantage architectural framework, we're providing the industry's broadest and deepest technology innovations to address emerging IT challenges and deliver increased business value." said Mr. Vatsun Thirapatarapong, GM of Commercial operations, Cisco Systems Thailand. "Cisco's new innovations across the Unified Fabric and Unified Computing portfolios demonstrate our ability to deliver solutions designed to meet the dynamic needs of the modern data center virtualization and cloud-ready architecture. Its uniqueness leads the organization to build the real cloud system.”
"In Thailand, with over 4,000 customers since Cisco began shipping the UCS (Unified Computing System), we continue to deliver innovation and one of the industry's broadest portfolios of compute options," said Mr. Vatsun, "The Unified Computing System is rapidly becoming the platform of choice for critical business applications: over 40 independent software vendors (ISVs) are now actively developing to the system, which currently supports tens of thousands of applications."
We are not just making servers, we’re making server history
1986 - Innovator in Multi-Protocol Routing
1994 - Introduced Intelligent Switches
1995 - Introduced innovative Cisco VOIP Technology
1998 - Leader in Gigabit Ethernet and layer 3 routing in Switches
1999 - Develop Multi-Layer Modular Switch with Routing and Virtual LAN
2008 - First to innovate and introduce Unified Fabric Switches
2009 - Launch Unified Computing Servers
2010 - Introduce 1st and best value, large memory footprint server
2011 - Integrating compute, high-speed networking, storage access and virtualization "IN ONE SYSTEM"
** UCS (Unified Computing System) is Cisco’s unique computing model that uses integrated management and combines a “wire once” unified fabric with an industry standard computing platform to optimize virtualization, reduce data center total overall cost, and provide dynamic resource provisioning for increased business agility. **
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