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In the past, enterprise IT departments used RISC and mainrame platorms to run

those applications most critical to their business. To help ensure high perormance

and reliability, many businesses were willing to rely on, and pay relatively higher

prices or, RISC/UNIX solutions and associated maintenance agreements. However,

a transormational shit has occurred.

Imagine the possibilities—an environment in which computing, networking, and

storage access resources are part o an elastic, scalable, lexible inrastructure that

can be put into action at any moment. Cisco UCS is the irst truly uniied data center

platorm that combines industry-standard x86-architecture servers, networking,

virtualization awareness, and embedded element management in a single system

that uniies inrastructure and management. Cisco UCS is a cost-eective, intelligent

inrastructure that simpliies and accelerates the deployment o enterprise-class

applications and services, enabling your business to be more agile and competitive

while simultaneously reducing the total cost o ownership (TCO). Cisco can help you

analyze the costs and beneits o Cisco UCS compared to your existing RISC/UNIX

server inrastructure to gain a clear view o how your data center can better support

your business.

Solution Brie September 2012

Highlights

Inrastructure or Today and into theFuture

• Cisco Uniied Computing System™(Cisco UCS®) delivers agility,security, and reliability at reduced totalcost o ownership (TCO).

Outstanding Perormance andAvailability

• Cisco UCS with intelligent Intel®Xeon® processors is designed todeliver the perormance, scalability,

and availability required or enterprisemission-critical applications.

40 Percent Lower Costs

• Cisco UCS reduces capital andoperating costs while increasingsecurity and business agility.

20 Times Faster

• Cisco UCS servers with intelligentIntel Xeon processors deliver world-record perormance or mission-critical workloads.

Faster Deployment Times

• Integrated management increases IT

sta productivity, improves reliability,and reduces the risk o ailures.

1-to-100 Sta-to-Server Ratio

• Cisco UCS automates IT, helping toincrease an organization’s sta-to-server ratio.



Application Modernization:

Migrate to Cisco UCS Powered by Intel Xeon Processors

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Challenges with Aging RISC/UNIX Inrastructure

Data centers are ull o aging RISC/UNIX

servers that cannot support today’s

business needs. Costs associated with

purchasing, maintaining, and servicing

these servers continue to escalate.

In addition, very ew public or private

cloud environments are based on RISC/

UNIX servers, because the systems

are expensive, inlexible, and burdened

with complex system managementrameworks.

Reduced Cost Eectiveness

RISC/UNIX server acquisition and

maintenance costs are now a signiicant

component o IT budgets. On average,

the platorms have a 65 percent higher

total cost o acquisition than x86-

architecture-based servers. In act,

high operating and maintenance costs

combined with per-core sotware

licensing oten places RISC/UNIX

systems at a signiicant disadvantage.

In addition, the price o energy and data

center space continues to rise, making

eorts to power, cool, and house these

systems burdensome. With ewer

college graduates experienced in RISC/

UNIX administration, skilled personnel

are harder to ind and expensive to

employ. These actors, combined with

lat or shrinking IT budgets, are proving

that continued reliance on RISC/UNIX

architectures no longer is cost eective.

Perormance and Flexibility Are

Necessary to Remain Competitive

Successul businesses are aced with

a variety o challenges. More users

are generating increasing amounts

o data that must be processed and

accessed, with demands or additional

perormance capacity requent and

unpredictable. In many instances,

today’s aging and proprietary RISC/

UNIX inrastructure ails to deliver the

perormance, lexibility, and agility

required to support the modernization

o applications and the dynamic

demands o the business. At a time

when data centers are moving to cloud

or inrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)

platorms, there is a greater need

or lexible, standard, nonproprietary

platorms and solutions.

Smart Inrastructure Todayand into the Future

Cisco UCS is a unique system that can

simpliy and accelerate deployment

o enterprise-class applications

and services running in bare-metal,

virtualized, and cloud-computing

environments, providing extreme

lexibility to businesses. Its built-in

policy-based automation and deep

integration with amiliar systems

management and orchestration tools

helps IT departments transorm

operations, making sta more eicient

and eective. Cisco UCS delivers

scalability, agility, security, and reliability

at a reduced TCO.

Outstanding Perormance and

Availability

Cisco UCS with intelligent Intel Xeon

processors. Intel Xeon processors

deliver cost-eective scalability, high

perormance, advanced reliability, and

the data protection that businesses

expect or their most data-intensive

enterprise applications. Intel Xeon

processors are designed to meet

business perormance needs, with

reliability, availability, and scalability

eatures equal to, and in some cases

greater than, current RISC processors.

Cisco UCS has a comprehensive server

product line that enables scale-up and

scale-out application architectures to

ully support business needs. Some o

the world’s most successul companies,

across a variety o industries, have

transitioned their most critical business

applications and database deployments

to Cisco UCS. You too can transorm

your mission-critical computing

environment so that it is ready or the

challenges o both today and the uture.

40 Percent Lower Costs

Cisco UCS uses high-perormance,

Decreased Operational Costs

“Ordinarily, expanding rom twoto three data centers would beexpected to increase operationalcosts by 50 percent. Our operationalcosts will actually decrease by 40percent when we expand rom twoto three data centers. A major reasonis the space, power, and coolingsavings rom consolidating rom 84 to30 racks.”

—Shreyas Shah, Senior Director,Global Inormation Technology atAvago Technologies

(http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/

collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/Avago_

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cost-eective industry-standard Intel

Xeon processors. In addition, the

uniied abric reduces the total number

o interace cards, cables, and chassis

switches needed by up to two-thirds,

lowering costs and complexity. Virtual

networks are now visible and managed

in exactly the same way as physical

networks, but with massive scalability

and lexibility. Cisco UCS represents

a radical simpliication compared to

traditional systems, reducing capital

and operating costs while increasing

business agility and improving

perormance.

20 Times Faster

Achieve better IT productivity and a

superior price-to-perormance ratio

or lower TCO with Cisco UCS servers.

Cisco UCS servers deliver world-

record perormance or mission-critical

workloads. With an integrated 10-

Gbps uniied abric, Cisco UCS meets

the bandwidth demands o today’s

multicore processors and eliminatesthe cost o separate networks or each

type o traic while increasing workload

agility, reliability, and perormance.

Faster Deployment Times

Cisco UCS is intelligent inrastructure

that is sel-aware and sel-integrating.

When new components are added

to the system, they are automatically

placed in resource pools, making

deployment ast and easy. The

system is built rom the oundation so

that every aspect o server identity,personality, and connectivity is

abstracted and can be applied through

sotware. Servers are conigured

automatically, eliminating the manual,

time-consuming, error-prone assembly

o components into systems. Every

aspect o the inrastructure can be

conigured dynamically, making each

server ready to power any workload at

any time.

Achieve 1-to-100 (or Greater) Sta-

to-Server Ratio

Cisco UCS eliminates the manual,

time-consuming, error-prone

assembly o components into systems

because every aspect o the Cisco

UCS inrastructure can be conigured

automatically and dynamically,

making each server ready to power

any workload at any time. Gone are

the days o sticky notes rom one

administrator to another, communicating

important coniguration inormation or

individual system coniguration. Cisco

UCS Manager enables, encourages,

and supports immediate, real-time,

and eicient cooperation between

administrative roles, with cross-role

visibility. This visibility provides a path to

the preprovisioning o critical elementsin the deployment process. The

inherent cooperative nature o Cisco

UCS Manager removes the traditional

data center management silo barriers,

which historically have reduced sta

eiciency.

Outstanding Perormance

“Our most important driver wasperormance. Perormance testingdelivered improvements that wereup to 20 times aster with the IntelXeon platorm than we had beenable to achieve on our existingRISC-based systems. We went romalmost 100 percent CPU utilizationto barely achieving 20 percent. TheCisco Uniied Computing System andarchitecture gives us a lot o room togrow.”

—Paul Di’Vittorio, Director o PrivateCloud Architecture at EMC

(http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/

collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/cisco_emc_

risc_migration_case_study.pd )

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Beyond Eiciency: Making IT More

Productive

Cisco UCS helps organizations go

beyond eiciency: it helps them

become more eective through

technologies that promulgate

simplicity rather than complexity.

The result is secure, lexible, agile,

high-perormance, sel-integrating

inormation technology that delivers

reduced sta costs with increased

uptime through automation and more

rapid return on investment (ROI; Figure 1).

Cisco RISC/UNIX MigrationServices

RISC/UNIX application migrations are

not all the same. Proper planning and

a sound migration methodology are

required to help ensure a successul

migration. Using an abundance o

experience garnered rom assisting

customers worldwide, Cisco®

Advanced Services consultants

can help you exploit the signiicant

architectural innovations o Cisco UCS

and help ensure that you get the best

ROI rom your migration eort.

Cisco RISC/UNIX Migration Services

provides a lexible approach that adapts

to the complexity and importance o

the applications to be migrated. These

services build on strong relationships

with enterprise sotware vendors,

including Oracle and SAP, as well as

trusted delivery partners with vast

experience in migrating commercial

o-the-shel and custom applications.

Cisco RISC/UNIX Migration Services

uses proven, industry-leading

methodologies and practices to migrate

RISC processor–based applications

to the award-winning Cisco UCS.

Complete sets o services are available

to help you conirm ROI and reduced

TCO, perorm test migrations, and

migrate applications based on your

criteria and requirements.

Cisco: Your Trusted DataCenter Partner

Cisco is in a unique position to help

migrate mission-critical applications

to state-o-the-art platorms.

Already a long-term partner in many

data centers, Cisco understands

Total 5-Year Benet ROI

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Figure 1. RISC/UNIX Migration to Cisco UCS: 5-Year Benefit and ROI



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the challenges associated with

the migration o mission-critical

applications. Cisco RISC/UNIX Migration

Services provides a proven process

to help customers move rom RISC-

based UNIX environments to Cisco

UCS. Using best-in-class migration

methodologies, in-depth analysis

tools, a robust planning process, and

design and implementation services,

Cisco provides a comprehensive,

cost-eective approach to customer

migration initiatives.

With Cisco UCS and Cisco RISC/

UNIX Migration Services, you can

transorm your IT inrastructure into

a lexible, agile, cost-eective data

center that is a strategic asset to the

business. Imagine the possibilities—an

environment in which computing,

networking, and storage accessresources are part o an elastic,

scalable, lexible inrastructure that can

be put into action at any moment. Cisco

provides market-leading, innovative,

standards-based solutions that

combine to deliver the data center o

the uture. Working in tandem with the

business, this new, open inrastructure

oers enhanced perormance,

scalability, reliability, and manageability

at less cost than your existing outdated

RICS/UNIX inrastructure.

For More Inormation

For more inormation about migration to

Cisco UCS, contact your local account

representative or use the ollowing

resources:

• To learn more about migrating to

Cisco UCS, please visit http://www.

cisco.com/go/migratetoucs.

• To learn more about Cisco UCS,

please visit http://www.cisco.com/

go/ucs.

Cisco Support: Depth o Experience

“We received great support romCisco Services in helping us testand deploy the implementationon schedule. They also helped ustake advantage o eatures that weotherwise would not have known howto optimize or our needs. We werepleasantly surprised with Cisco’sexpertise and depth o experiencewith Cisco Uniied Computing, Oracle,and data center technologies.”

—Paul Di’Vittorio, Director o PrivateCloud Architecture at EMC

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