Powering Applications at Every Scale: The Next Wave of Unified Computing Innovation

Powering Applications at Every Scale The Next Wave of Unified Computing Innovation

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Applications Have Unique Requirements at Every Scale

Edge-Scale Computing Core Data Center Workloads

Faster Decisions

Cloud-Scale Computing

Deeper Insight Connecting to Opportunity

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Powering Applications at Every Scale

Edge-Scale

Computing

Cloud-Scale

Computing

Power and Operational

Simplicity in the Data

Center Core

A More Efficient Way to

Power Cloud-Scale

Applications

Customer Needs

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Seamless Extension of the

Data Center to the Edge

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Powering Applications at Every Scale

Compute Network Storage Virtualization Management and Automation

UCS Mini

Edge-Scale Computing Cloud-Scale Computing

UCS M-Series Modular Servers

UCS C3160

Core Data Center Workloads

Fourth Generation UCS Servers

UCS Management Innovation

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Fourth Generation UCS

UCS Mini




UCS C3160



Power and Operational Simplicity in the Data Center Core 1

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Cisco UCS M4 Series Servers Continuing a Tradition of Versatility and Industry-Leading Application Performance

UCS B200 M4 Blade Server

Versatile performance and

density without compromise

UCS C220 M4 Rack Server

Density-optimized for general

purpose workloads

Storage and I/O-optimized for

big data analytics, virtualization,

and bare metal applications

UCS C240 M4 Rack Server

UP TO

39% Improved TCO

UP TO

86% Faster Provisioning

UP TO

53% Lower Power

UP TO

77% Reduction In Cabling

Cisco UCS: Five Years of Game-Changing Customer Results

Next generation

convergence and

virtualization capabilities

UCS VIC 1300

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Seamless Infrastructure Management

L4-7 Services Virtualization

New!

Integrated application containers

for secure workload provisioning

New!

Application Centric Infrastructure

configuration

New!

Open developer kit for

ecosystem acceleration

New!

Hadoop integration to easily

manage large clusters

Storage

UCS Director

Nexus Product Family

Unified Computing System

Automation Powered by UCS Director

Quality

Enforce IT Best Practices

Velocity

Rapidly Deploy Applications

Simplicity

Ready for Use in Hours

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UCS Mini





Cloud-Scale Computing


UCS C3160

UCS Mini

Edge-Scale Computing

Seamlessly Extend the Data Center to the Edge 2

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Edge-Scale Computing

Computing Near the Source of Demand Enabling Small Scale IT

Customer Needs

• Computing proximity for IoE / Fog, Remote Site, Branch

• Comprehensive remote management at global scale

Central IT

Remote Sites Customer Premise Branch Offices

Small and Medium Organizations Test / Dev

Customer Needs

• “No Assembly Required” total computing solution

• Simplified systems management

• Easy scalability from 1~15 servers

• Low power / cooling footprint

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UCS Mini

UCS Mini

New architectural entry point for Unified Computing at 1~15 server scale

Full Power UCS in an all-in-one package:

• Compute

• Networking

• UCS Manager

• Standard UCS Blades / Fans / Power Supplies

Enterprise Capability at Edge Scale

Connect up to 7 C-Series Rack Servers for Expanded Capacity

UP TO

29% CapEx Savings

UP TO

36% TCO

UP TO

34% Lower Power

UP TO

80% Fewer Cables

6324 Fabric Interconnects

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Placing Computing at the Source of Demand

Core Data Center

UCS Management

Sensor Data Retail, Sports and

Entertainment

Branch Office or Clinic Service Provider:

Customer Premise Equipment

Compute Network Storage Virtualization

Management and Automation

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Large Retailer UCS Mini

Store Operations

Trend Analysis Dynamic Pricing

Inventory Control

Store Back Office

Interactive Digital Signage

Location based Merchandising

Blended Physical + Digital Customer Experience

Customer Insights

Employee / Store Productivity

Business Objectives

Power for local applications:

• VDI for rich ERP apps

• Location based services & merchandizing

• Media streaming & recording

• Log data for traffic, density, dwell time patterns

UCS Advantage

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UCS Mini






UCS C3160


Revolutionizing Cloud-Scale Computing 3

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Cloud-Scale Inverts Computing Architecture

Core Enterprise Workloads Cloud Scale

Many

Applications

Server Single

Server

Many

Servers

Single

Application

SCM ERP/Financial Legacy CRM Email Online

Content Gaming Mobile IoT eCommerce

Hypervisor

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UCS

M-Series True Server

Disaggregation

Compact Chassis 8 Compute cartridges

Shared Local Resources Network and storage resources

Lightweight

Compute Cartridge Two Independent Intel

Xeon E3 Servers

No adapters or HDDs

Based on Cisco System Link Technology

3rd Gen VIC extends UCS fabric to within the server

Shared Local Resources

Four shared SSDs in the chassis

Shared dual 40Gb connectivity

Compute Density

16 Intel Xeon E3 Compute nodes in 2RU chassis

Each cartridge holds two independent compute nodes

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UP TO

77% Faster

Provisioning

UP TO

8x Server

Density

UP TO

95% Fewer

Peripherals

UP TO

38% TCO

Improvement

UP TO

22% Power

Efficiency

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Cloud Scale Demands Cisco M-Series

Re-Packaged

Traditional

Servers

Traditional

Rack Servers

Improved core and socket density

Shared power and cooling at the chassis level

Shared network I/O, storage,

Designed for stateless management

No duplication of subsystems at server level

Built-in investment protection (Independent subsystem lifecycles—future-proofed for 10G / 40G

I/O)

Cisco M-Series: Designed to Meet Cloud Scale Demands

Mechanical repackaging of traditional server architecture yields limited benefits

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C3160 Rack Server Bare Metal and Virtualization

• High-density local disk combined with modular high-performance compute

• Dual processor server with up to 360TB in a compact

4U Form Factor

Capacity Optimized Server UCS C3000 Series Rack Server Family

• Large scale content storage and data repositories

• Distributed file-systems

• Big Data and Hadoop applications

• Media streaming and transcoding

BIG DATA

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Mobile Gaming UCS M-Series Modular Servers + UCS C3160 Rack Server

UCS Management

Game Server

User Information

UCS C3160

Rapidly Launch new game titles

Anticipate and scale new titles

Cost of ownership

Deliver predictable performance in dynamic market

Business Objectives

77% reduction in time to provision

90% reduction in time to upgrade

Ease of repurposing servers

30% reduction in CAPEX

15% improvement in power

And/or Improve Business Outcome

UCS Advantage

Monetization

Analytics

UCS M Series UCS M Series

UCS Management

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Next Wave of Unified Computing Powering Applications at Every Scale

UCS Mini







UCS C3160

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Unified Computing: Powering Applications at Every Scale

Innovation for a Changing Application Landscape

Taking Unified Computing to

new use cases and to

customers in new market

segments.

Expanding to New Customers and Workloads

Game-changing results for customers fueled by industry-

leading technology and partnerships

Better Business Outcomes

Applying Cisco’s Application

Centric Infrastructure strategy to

new infrastructure requirements

of location and scale.

Thank You

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