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Old 10-26-2015, 10:30 AM
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Default what makes the CISCO Blades and its UCS systems to be a success?

what makes the CISCO Blades and its UCS systems to be a success?
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Old 10-26-2015, 06:05 PM
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CISCO and its strong presence in the networking space is a good start. When you have a dominated market share position in the most critical area of the datacenter and perform as expected (reliability, quality, speed) the brand turns to be a reference. Plus it looks like Cisco servers working with Cisco networking could be seen as posing less of a risk to the network.

This large share of networking in the DC space could be translated to a large number of professionals certified by CISCO and these professionals could influence the decision on server brand for the DC. Despite the fact that a lot of people would say that the network team doesn't make server purchase decisions, the reality is the network team feedback on server brand could impact positively the final decision (if the decision is based on technical aspects and not only on price).

Another point that makes the CISCO Blades and UCS a strong player in the DC is its Unify and Embed Management for Unified Computing

The Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Manager provides unified, embedded management of all software and hardware components in the Cisco UCS. Using SingleConnect Technology it controls multiple chassis and manages resources for thousands of virtual machines.

Through its unified, embedded, policy-based, and ecosystem-friendly approach, Cisco UCS Manager promises to reduce management and administration expenses, which are among the largest items in most IT budgets (pain point that customers want to address). Based on CISCO specs, the UCS Manager can manage up to 160 servers and thousands of Cisco UCS components in multiple chassis. The embedded management software and all the managed components are part of a UCS domain. With CISCO UCS Central management can be extended globally to thousands of servers in multiple domains.

It is important also to mention that the architecture of CISCO Blades brings some innovation that translate to be compelling features to customers. The CISCO UCS B provides good performance (not better or worse than other blades providers) but interesting stability for memory-intensive workloads such as large databases, in-memory analytics and BI.
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