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© 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 1
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State of Alaska
“We are seeing significant cost savings in the hardware and data center space, due to a reduction in the number of server chassis and required cabling.”– Corey Kos, Enterprise Architect
• State and local government
• 24,400 employees
• Headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska
• Population of 722,718
• Largest state in the United States by area
• Cisco data center customer since 2010
• Theater: Americas
CUSTOMER STATS
CHALLENGE• Delays in delivering information technology services to end-users
• Different departmental standards and procedures
• Overall operational inefficiencies and lack of unified teams within data center
WHY CISCO DATA CENTER SOLUTIONS• Update the data center platform to more quickly provide services
• Cisco UCS simplifies data center operations and supports cloud computing
BENEFITS• Enabled Alaska to provide hosted services to agencies and
organizations statewide
• Increased IT department productivity by streamlining operations
• Increased speed of infrastructure deployment, enabling the State to provide services faster than ever before
• Reduced hardware purchases and power and cooling costs
CISCO DATA CENTER ENVIRONMENT• FlexPod
• Cisco Unified Computing System
• VMware
• NetApp
• Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers and Blade Chassis
• Cisco UCS 6140 Series Fabric Interconnects
• Cisco Nexus 7010
• Cisco WAN
• Partner: World Wide Technology