Getting Started Guide

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At-a-Glance
IT Agility Delivered
With Cisco UCS, you can:
• Reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO) at the platform, site, and organizational
levels
• Deliver applications and services faster across physical and virtual environments
• Improve application performance
• Scale without complexity
• Eliminate redundant infrastructure
• Increase IT staff productivity and business agility
Customer Case Studies
San Joaquin County Improves Provisioning and Performance Through a Private
Cloud Managed by Cisco UCS Director
Cisco UCS delivered top cloud performance while making management easier than
ever. Key benefits included:
• Enabled self-provisioning for virtual servers in one-third the time
• Reduced provisioning time for physical servers from several days to less than two hours
• Automated manual tasks for improved management
“With our Cisco infrastructure, we can deliver IT services faster than ever, so users can
get their jobs done.”
- David Newaj, Assistant Director, San Joaquin County
For full details, visit San Joaquin County case study.
Hospital Builds a Reliable, Secure EHR Infrastructure with Cisco UCS and Splunk
With Cisco UCS, Union Hospital of Cecil County experienced dramatic results:
• Freed up time for patient care by keeping EHR access fast
• Decreased footprint by 75 percent, reducing power and cooling costs
• Fulfilled server requests in 1 day instead of 1 week
“We can do more with our electronic health records system because we’ve built a solid
foundation with Cisco and Splunk”
- Anne Lara, CIO, Union Hospital of Cecil County
For full details, visit Union Hospital of Cecil County case study.
IT Infrastructure Provider Supports Customers’ Data Compliance Needs and
Increases Their Confidence in Cloud Offerings
Peak 10, a national IT infrastructure provider based in Charlotte, N.C., deployed Cisco
UCS and achieved the following outcomes:
• Managed resources with existing tools, including Windows PowerShell, with
dedicated fabric-interconnect domains
• Reduced server build times by 82% and cabling requirements by up to 90%
• Saved 200 worker hours per complete site node upgrade
• Helped enable customers to manage maintenance schedules based on their business
For full details, visit Peak 10 case study.
Why Cisco?
Cisco UCS continues our long history of innovation in architecture, technology,
partnerships, and services. We take a systems approach to computing that combines
network intelligence and scalability through innovative application-specific integrated
circutis (ASICs), integrated management, and standard computing components. Cisco
offers a complete set of plan-build-manage IT lifecycle services designed to reduce
risk and increase performance to accelerate your migration to unified computing.
For More Information
For more information, visit Cisco Unified Computing System.