CISCO out with UCS on fabric computing platform
Network and communication company, Cisco last week announced new innovations across its Unified Computing System to deliver a third-generation fabric computing platform that will address the virtualization and cloud computing challenges in work places, and helps customers respond rapidly to changing business needs, scale their data centers, and accelerate transition to virtualization 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.
With the Cisco UCS Manager, IT administrators can now manage both blade and rack servers as a common entity, and extends the management domain to span thousands of servers across data centers around the world.
New Cisco Unified Computing System Innovations Help Customers Build Clouds and Deploy Business Applications Faster Additions to Cisco Unified Computing System portfolio quadruple memory capacity, double switching capacity and simplify management for large-scale UCS deployments.
According to CISCO, UCS customers are enabled to report dramatic operational and cost improvements: 30% lower infrastructure expenses, 90% reduction in deployment times, 40% improvements in application performance, and 60% reductions in power/cooling costs.
