Bangkok--19 Mar--PC & Associates Consulting
In today’s data center infrastructure, compute, virtualization, network -- and even communications -- resources are separate ‘islands’, and each island has a different perspective on virtualization.
Customers are facing the challenge of unifying and scaling these separate virtualized environments, providing security and policy in a virtual, rather than physical level, and managing increasing power and cooling costs.
Customers need a data center system designed and delivered in an integrated way that provides increased business agility through just-in-time provisioning of resources for both virtualized and non virtualized environments and dramatic reduction in TCO through lowered operating expenses and increased efficiency of power and cooling.
Market Opportunity for Cisco Unified Computing System
Virtualization technologies stand out among ROI stories in IT. The top technologies IT expects to deploy despite tightening budgets owing to their fast and clear ROI are: 1). Server Virtualization, 2). Storage Virtualization and 3). WAN optimization (Goldman Sachs IT Spend Survey, January 2009).
Approximately 38% of IT workloads are virtualized today and customers are no longer dealing with static workloads, Nemertes Research 2008.
Companies that have deployed basic virtualization are reducing their IT costs by $145 per user over three years with a total investment of $24 per user. The average company deploying basic virtualization could see an ROI of 472% and payback in less than a year, including deployment time. This is a very significant ROI for a relatively low-cost, low-risk initiative, IDC 2008.
Today, more than 70% of IT budget is spent simply to maintain and manage existing infrastructure (Source: Forrester, December 2008).
Server capacity has grown to about 750X during a lifecycle of a typical data center facility, while cooling capacity has only grown in efficiency about 64X. The disparity of about 11.6X* is accelerating the obsolescence of data center IT infrastructures. (*According to Uptime Institute).
For every $100 dollars spent powering servers an additional $150 dollars is spent powering supporting datacenter infrastructure. This infrastructure support costs can be reduced to $60 using the most efficient equipment and best practices (*According to Uptime Institute and Green Grid)
Driving Real Benefit to Customers: Cisco Unified Computing System
Every second, every day, 6 people sign on to the Internet for the first time in their lives joining the connected global population. Every second, this global community views 1,200 videos on YouTube, shares 11,000 songs and sends 2,000,000 emails.
All of this plus the equivalent of 3,000,000 trees turned into paper and printed can fit in the system memory of one Cisco Unified Computing System.
3,007 — Miles of legacy servers and infrastructure when set side by side
Equivalent to distance from Los Angeles to New York and well into the Atlantic.
This represents the obsolete cabling and support infrastructure that could be eliminated by Cisco UCS.
Recycled - frees up space, radically lowing energy consumption and environmental pollution.
31,103,864,053 — Kilowatt hours per year saved by unifying aging traditional servers and supporting infrastructure
Could double the available electricity in the ten poorest countries worldwide increasing education, healthcare, and overall standard of living.
It is also equal to the energy output of more than 15 U.S. coal fired electric plants and 35 million tons of C02.
Almost equal to entire wind energy produced in U.S. — Fastest growing energy source for 3 years straight.
138,893,908 individual tax returns were filed last year in the United States.- they can all be stored in the memory of one Cisco Unified Computing System..
It takes only 40% of the Cisco Unified Computing System resources to host all of the US Wikipedia.
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