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The Cisco Data Centre Portfolio
Configure, operate, and analyse your data centre networking with simplicity, visibility, and sustainability. The portfolio offers operational excellence, high performance and sustainable networks, and high availability to and between applications and workloads across on-premises and cloud data centres.
Cisco Full Stack Observability (FSO)
The digital transformation that accelerated over the last two years has heightened the need for businesses to provide new and reliable digital engagement models that meet customers’ expectations. As a result, applications are now central to the business, driving a rapid move towards cloud computing, further increasing complexity.
While it used to be enough to understand where the problem is occurring, it is now also important to understand why it is occurring and even more importantly, tie application performance back to business metrics so action can be prioritized based on business impact. This broader visibility requirement spanning infrastructure, security, applications and cloud services have created complexity beyond human scale.
Global technologists say
struggle to quickly cut through noise to identify root causes of performance issues.
are faced with more IT complexity than ever before and wrestle overwhelming ‘data noise’.
(Source: Cisco AppDynamics Agents of Transformation Report 2021).
face real business-impacting consequences of not having visibility and insight in the performance of the whole technology stack.
Full-Stack Observability allows DevOps, AppOps, NetOps and SecOps teams to work together and see the full stack of available data across the entire digital experience through integrations via AppDynamics and Thousand Eyes.
In combination, these solutions
Improve customer satisfaction
reducing time to isolate and repair to improve uptime and performance.
Lower costs
map dependencies between apps and infrastructure to optimise resources.
Increase resilience
proactive contextualise data and identify interactions, interdependencies and patters.
Solution description
AppDynamics connects infrastructure to the impact it has on applications, and adds the business context and correlation, which enables teams to align and prioritise based on what matters most to the bottom line.
Cisco Secure Application protects business-critical applications no matter where they run, from the inside out at runtime, to maintain speed and uptime, while balancing risk.
ThousandEyes enables application performance to be correlated to the network and internet that connects users and services.
Observability with AppDynamics
AppDynamics delivers business context to Cisco full-stack observability by providing real time insights that drive revenue and results.
AppDynamics empowers enterprises with a solution for real-time applications and business performance, helping companies make mission critical and strategic decisions that improve customer experience and accelerate business in a multi-cloud world.
Pair AppDynamics with ThousandEyes softwares to combine real-time awareness of business outcomes with infrastructure automation in the multi-cloud environment.
Unified Computing Systems
(UCS)
Rack servers | Blade servers | X-Series | HCI with Nutanix
Cisco UCS combines direct industry-standard servers, networking and storage access into a single unified system.
UCS X-Series
Enhanced Power and thermal infrastructure to host next generation workloads
- Overall chassis power capability > 8.4KW in dual feed (N+N), and 14KW in N+1 redundancy
- Ability to cool 300W+ TDP CPU/GPU SKU’s
- Support for 3 to 4 Tick-Tock generation of longevity
- Density and Form-factor
- Industry comparable socket density per RU
- Minimum of 8 compute slots
- 32 DIMM socket support on a 2 SKT compute node beginning Cooper Lake family
- Power, thermal and form factor support for Smart NIC’s, FPGA accelerators, GPU cards, etc.,
- Fabric bandwidth
- Data Fabric connectivity to blades. Ethernet - 200/400/800 Gbps per blade
- Provision for future fabric expansion – Gen. Z, IAL, etc.,
• Modular Platform
• Differentiation with Intersight
• Up to 25x Bandwidth Increase
• Expansion Shelves
• High Speed Interconnects
• Power & Cooling Innovations
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix, integrates Cisco’s best-in-class compute (Cisco UCS), networking and SaaS management platform (Cisco Intersight) with market-leading hyperconverged software from Nutanix (Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure, Nutanix Cloud Manager, Nutanix Unified Storage, and Nutanix End User Computing). This combination creates the industry’s most complete hyperconverged solution fully integrated and validated with flexible deployment options and support across Cisco’s rack and modular blade portfolio. Together, Cisco and Nutanix aim to reduce complexity with an operating model that delivers visibility, control, and consistency for hyperconverged systems across highly distributed hybrid and multicloud environments. Customers will benefit from a fully integrated and validated solution offering flexible deployment options with support for both Cisco’s rack and modular server portfolio. Take the pain out of migration from legacy HCI solutions to Cisco-Nutanix with Comstor.
Features and benefits
SaaS operations
See and control your entire hyperconverged estate through a single dashboard with Cisco Intersight.
More technology choices
Effortlessly address application needs with a comprehensive portfolio of system and technology options.
Augmented support
Keep systems running with a more integrated, collaborative solution support model designed to fix issues faster.
