Cisco Solutions for EMC VSPEX

Tim Stack

Solutions Marketing Manager, Cisco

SIMPLE. EFFICIENT. FLEXIBLE

Co-sponsored by Intel®

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Data Center Economics

* Source: Gartner—Cisco IT, “Data Center Cost Portfolio”

73%of all IT spending is keeping current

data centers up and running

*

76% of CIO’s say that it’s difficult to stay on

budget and time

Catalysts for Change

1

1 According to IDG research

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Vblock Systems

Three Paths To Cloud Infrastructure

Cisco Solutons for VSPEXProducts

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Build Your Own.

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Takes time

Resources

High Risk

Challenges With Build Your Own

Time

STABILIZE &

OPTIMIZEDEPLOY

BUILD&

TESTSIZING

DESIGN&

PLAN

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Reference Architecture Validated By Cisco & EMC

Packaged By Partners

Validated Solutions with Choice of OS and Hypervisor

Cisco Solutions for VSPEX

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Storage

Network

Compute

Hypervisor

Application

Backup

SIMPLE. EFFICIENT. FLEXIBLE.

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Proven & Tested

Validated Design

Lowers Risk

Cisco Solutions for VSPEX Accelerates Time To Value

Time

STABILIZE &

OPTIMIZEDEPLOYSIZING

DESIGN&

PLAN

BUILD&

TESTPRODUCTION

Maximize ROI

Quickly Deploy Infrastructure

Accelerate Journey To The Cloud

Meet Business Demands

Reduce Budgetary Pressures

Beat Competition

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VSPEX - Cisco Validated Designs

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Trusted. Scalable. Predictable.Cisco Validated Designs

CVD’s Enable Customers To:- Deliver Agility By Lowering The Risk Of

Deploying Technology Solutions- Increase The Speed Of Technology Solution

Deployment- Deploy A Scalable, Reliable, Predictable

Foundation On Which To Build Business Value And Lower TCO

- Ease Technology Solution Integration With Higher And Consistent Quality Assurance Of Product And Solution

Average Of 2000 Man Hours In Design & Testing Per CVD

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Cisco UCS Director Turn-Key Solution

• Self-service infrastructure provisioning • Automates end-to-end IT processes• Enforce best practices with consistent

policies

UCS Director

End-to-End Infrastructure Management

Network

X86 Server

Hypervisor

Storage

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“The VSPEX Proven Infrastructure allows us to spend more time generating efficiencies and building new capabilities to help our customers.”

Customer Success:FABICK CAT With UCS Infrastructure

• EMC VNX unified storage• Cisco UCS blade servers• EMC FAST Suite• Cisco UCS• Microsoft Hyper-V

Components

Improve performance capabilities, manage storage devices as a single pool, reduce solution and software virtualization costs, and enable zero downtime

Challenge

EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure

Solution Increase in performance

25% Virtualization

of environment

94% Reduction in

software virtualization costs

78%

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Benefits of Cisco Solutions for EMC VSPEX

Simple- Unified Computing reduces cost and complexity in

application and compute management- Unified Fabric reduces cost and complexity of

networking and management

Efficient - Converged networking- Reduces redundant IT Ops

Flexible- Wire once, enable everywhere

Choice of Hypervisors Storage &

Backup

Network

Compute

Hypervisor

Application

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CVDs

White papers

Case Studies

Solution briefs

Brochures/AAGs

For more information…

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