© 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information.
Page 3 of 7
Powering Mission-Critical Applications
The Cisco UCS B460 M4 Blade Server continues Cisco's commitment to delivering differentiated value, fabric
integration, and ease of management that is exceptional in the marketplace for mission critical applications:
●
Business intelligence
●
RISC migration
●
Decision support
●
In-memory analytics
●
Large-scale databases
●
Large-scale, virtualized applications
●
Enterprise-critical middleware
●
Large memory and consolidation workloads
Cisco USC Servers Change the Economics of the Data Center
IT infrastructure matters now more than ever, as organizations seek to achieve the full potential of IaaS, bare-
metal, virtualized servers, and cloud computing. Cisco continues to lead in data center innovation with the
introduction of these new, mission-critical server building blocks for Cisco UCS that extends its exceptional
simplicity, agility, and efficiency. New innovations like the Cisco UCS B460 M4 Blade Server bring greater levels of
industry-leading performance and memory locality from IT infrastructure to enterprise applications. In addition,
Cisco UCS is a solution beyond individual rack or blades servers that conveys enormous benefits to customers
(Table 1).
Table 1.
Benefits of UCS Servers
Benefit
Technology
Application Customer Benefit
Lower costs
Cisco SingleConnect
technology
Fewer cables, HBAs, NICs, and switches to purchase, license, power, cool,
and maintain
Greater flexibility
Cisco UCS Manager software: total
hardware abstraction
● Less configuration drift among servers
● Server provisioning times that are reduced from days to minutes
● Servers that are provisioned in an automated and consistent manner
● Future foundation for fast, consistent server provisioning
Total openness
Open APIs
● Unique visibility into Cisco UCS beyond Cisco UCS Manager to UCS
Director and other third-party management tools
In addition, Cisco UCS provides three major innovations that lower both capital and operating expenditures for
server customers: Cisco Single Connect technology, Cisco UCS Manager software, and open APIs.
●
Cisco Single Connect technology provides a dramatic fabric simplification of networking and cabling
infrastructure: one easy, intelligent, and efficient way to connect rack and blade servers, physical and virtual
environments, LAN and SAN, and management.
●
Cisco UCS unified management software allows administrators to create a software model (service profile)
of a desired server and then instantiate that server and its I/O connectivity by associating the service profile
with a model with specific physical resources.
