Intel

Unified Computing System

Hierarchical Navigation

 
Refresh Now with UCS –save money, reduce energy usage, and lower total cost of ownership
Joined at the Chip

 

UCS Overview

The Unified Computing System represents a groundbreaking approach to the data center. It’s the ideal solution to help you quickly deliver more robust services while simultaneously lowering total cost of ownership.

Cisco is changing the game by moving focus off individual components and onto a holistic view of the data center that seamlessly integrates previously separated platforms.

Our highly efficient architecture unifies, simplifies, and automates the data center in ways that can transform your business and set the stage for delivery of innovative cloud and utility-based computing services in future that build on this foundation.

Resources

  • Cisco Intel UCS Video on Demand

Moving to UCS

Learn more about the programs that address the benefits and business justification for moving to UCS

  • Refresh Now with UCS: Learn about the value of refreshing your existing server platforms to the new Intel Xeon-based architecture brought to you by Cisco’s Unified Computing System

Refresh Now

Cisco and Intel share a common vision of the challenges facing today’s data center, and are uniquely positioned to address our customers’ IT needs. Our relationship is built on innovation, trust and scale, and we are recognized as valued advisors to IT in the data center and beyond.

Aged servers, energy and power usage concerns, and significant cost savings create a compelling reason for companies to consider updating servers today. To reinforce these benefits for customers, Cisco and Intel have jointly developed Refresh Now with UCS—a program to address the estimated 8-12 million servers 4 years or older that are ripe for refresh. View the slides and videos listed here to learn more about advantages of refreshing now with UCS.

Proof Points

A server upgrade is a significant financial commitment. The papers and testimonials noted here provide additional detail and customer examples to highlight the benefits of refreshing now with UCS.

Tools

The tools listed here can help you calculate the potential savings and return on investment you could enjoy by refreshing with UCS.

  • Cisco UCS TCO Tool: Provides a more extensive analysis around how UCS provides cost savings in many important areas like infrastructure, power, and cabling
  • Intel ROI Tool: Helps you understand the immediate return on investment (ROI) experienced in moving to the Intel Xeon 5500 architecture

Events

Data Center of the Future: Data Centers are among the most rapidly evolving technology areas today. Cisco has created a virtual environment to show how Data Center of the Future partners have joined together to architect a next-generation data center that delivers:

  • Greater scalability, efficiency, and flexibility
  • Consolidation and virtualization
  • End-to-end application delivery

Learn how this world class eco-system of partners is helping IT to deliver more value to the business by taking a fresh approach to the way data center infrastructure is designed and deployed.

Intel is a platinum sponsor of Cisco’s Data Center of the Future Phase 3, under way now. To learn more about their participation in this program, please visit their pages on the program microsite at www.thedcofthefuture.com. For any questions or comments please send an email to: DCoFvirtual@external.cisco.com.

Note: If you haven’t visited the Data Center of the Future site before, it will take you first to a registration page. You will need to register before you can access the Intel content on the site (click the register button in the bottom right of the page). If you have already registered, you will need to login to access the content on the microsite. Once you are logged in, to get to Intel’s content from the main screen, click the Intel logo. In Intel’s room, again click the Intel logo for a list of data center-related information.

Data Center of the Future On-Demand Webcasts
Event Type: On-Demand Webcast
Data Center of the Future audio webcasts about best practices from Cisco and its data center partners run about one hour and cover common issues and concerns.
For more information, visit the DCoF website at www.thedcofthefuture.com (you will need to login to access the site).

Realize the full potential of the Intel Xeon 5500 Intelligent Server Processor with the Cisco Unified Computing System and Services.

Cisco Unified Computing Services help accelerate your transition to a unified computing architecture and sustain and optimize the performance of that architecture after it is deployed. Using a unified view of data center resources, Cisco and our industry-leading partners deliver services that accelerate the transition to a unified computing environment. Cisco Unified Computing Services help architect a virtualized data center, quickly deploy the Cisco UCS B-series Blade Servers and C-series Rack Mount Servers, and optimize ongoing operations to better meet business needs.
 

Intel and Cisco are available globally to work together with you to help address your particular business needs—our teams are ready to engage. Please contact your Cisco Account Manager or Authorized Cisco Channel Partner to discuss the savings and benefits you’ll enjoy with UCS.