A Powerful, Simple, and Flexible Alternative to RISC/UNIX Servers

Expensive, aging RISC/UNIX-based servers don't provide the flexibility or agility to support today's business needs, or a path to cloud computing. Today's IT challenges need solutions built on open, industry-standard x86-based architectures.

Featured Content

Transition from RISC/UNIX Servers

Increase agility and reduce costs by migrating to the Cisco Unified Computing System. (PDF - 3 MB)

RISC/UNIX Migration

Migrate RISC/UNIX-based applications onto the Cisco UCS to realize cost savings, performance improvements, and cloud.

Migrating Intel Itanium Workloads

Explore the considerations and benefits of migration. (PDF - 3 MB)

Imagine a flexible, agile, cost-effective data center that meets those challenges and your specific business needs. The Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) is designed to help ensure the reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) that RISC/UNIX customers expect.

Architectural Advantages

The system's innovative architecture simplifies and speeds deployment of enterprise-class applications and services running in bare-metal, virtualized, and cloud-computing environments. Combined with a choice of operating systems, Cisco UCS delivers the hardware and application support required for the data center of today and tomorrow without vendor stagnation, lock-in, and costs.

Cisco UCS offers cost savings, performance improvements, and an optimal cloud computing platform for your mission-critical applications.

Ease Migration with Professional Services

Whether you are evaluating the business case for RISC/UNIX migration or have already made the decision to move to Cisco Unified Computing System, Cisco and our partners can assist you with each step of the migration process.

We offer professional services that use proven methodologies for safely and securely migrating RISC/UNIX environments onto Cisco's industry-leading, x86-based UCS. We can help you:

Identify potential business benefits and return on investment (ROI)
Perform test migrations to analyze and demonstrate feasibility
Migrate your production applications according to your requirements and timeline

Considering a migration from RISC/UNIX platforms? Discover these Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) products.

Cisco UCS 5100 Series Blade Server Chassis

Get a scalable, flexible architecture for current and future data center needs, featuring Unified Fabric and fabric extender technology.

Cisco UCS B230 M2 Blade Server

This blade server extends Cisco UCS capabilities by delivering high performance and density in a compact, half-width form factor.

Cisco UCS B440 M2 High-Performance Blade Server

Gain new levels of performance, scalability, and reliability for demanding compute-intensive and enterprise-critical applications.

Cisco UCS C260 M2 Rack-Mount Server

This 2-socket, 2-rack unit (RU) server increases performance and capacity for demanding virtualization and large dataset workloads.

Cisco UCS C460 M2 High-Performance Rack-Mount Server

Gain the processor, memory, and local storage needed for demanding enterprise applications and server consolidation workloads.

Cisco and our partners offer services to help you with each stage of RISC/UNIX data center migration.

RISC/UNIX Discovery Session is designed for customers who are beginning the process of migrating their current RISC/UNIX environment. This session is a brief engagement to confirm customer priorities, concerns, ROI requirements, and migration timeframes. Following the session, Cisco provides a high-level TCO analysis and applicable case studies
RISC/UNIX Migration Acceleration Service is a 4-5 week, onsite engagement for customers who have already decided to migrate their RISC/UNIX environment to an x86-based platform and want to validate the UCS as a platform for migration. This service will migrate selected applications to the Cisco UCS to demonstrate technical feasibility of a full migration. It also provides a total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis for migration based on data specific to your environment.
RISC/UNIX Migration Service is a comprehensive service to help migrate your production, RISC/UNIX-based data center compute platforms to Cisco UCS. Cisco will develop a complete migration strategy for the applications and data to be migrated and a high-level migration roadmap. After you approve the strategy, Cisco will develop a detailed migration plan based upon application dependencies, service-level agreements, and operational requirements. The migration plan will flow into a target architecture, low-level design and project plan for implementation.

For more information on these services, please review the RISC/UNIX Migration Services At-A-Glance and the RISC/UNIX Migration Services Data Sheet

Data Sheet

RISC/UNIX Migration
Migrate RISC/UNIX-based applications onto the Cisco UCS to realize cost savings, performance improvements, and cloud enablement.

Case Studies

EMC Boosts Solution Performance (Video - 3:23 min)
EMC improves the performance of its Oracle solution with the Cisco Unified Computing System.

Manufacturer Accelerates Business Cycle (PDF - 1.13 MB)
Avago Technologies migrates Oracle application stack to the Cisco Unified Computing System, without disruption.

Cisco IT Increased SAS Performance (PDF - 607 KB)
Cisco IT increases SAS PM performance while decreasing costs with the Cisco UCS B440 Server.

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (PDF - 102 KB)
Copper company achieves the power and performance to support a global ERP implementation.

EMC RISC-to-Intel X86 Migration (PDF - 760 KB)
EMC migrates RISC servers to Cisco Unified Computing System.

Migrating from HP Superdome to Cisco UCS
Learn how and why Cisco migrated its Oracle and SAP applications and databases from HP-UX to the Cisco UCS.

EMC Accelerates its Journey to Cloud Computing (PDF - 680 KB)
EMC uses the Cisco Unified Computing System to support Oracle E-Business Suite.

EMC IT Deploys a Private Cloud (PDF - 1.6 MB)
Learn how EMC IT migrated from an older Sun SPARC and Solaris infrastructure to Cisco Unified Computing System and Oracle RAC.

White Papers

Leading Software Vendors Choose Intel® Xeon® Processors (PDF - 1.9 MB)
Discover breakthrough innovations and economics for mission-critical systems.

Increase Data Center Value (PDF - 487 KB)
Read about migrating from UNIX/RISC to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Intel® processor-based servers.

Solution Overview

Migrate from RISC/UNIX Servers to the Cisco UCS (PDF - 3 MB)
Increase agility and reduce costs by migrating from RISC/UNIX servers to the Cisco Unified Computing System.

Migrating Intel Itanium Workloads (PDF - 3 MB)
Learn why Cisco is your trusted partner for migrating IntelÂ® Itanium workloads.

At-a-Glance

RISC/UNIX Migration (PDF - 350 KB)
Utilize proven methodologies and practices to migrate RISC/UNIX processor-based applications to the Cisco Unified Computing System.

Migrate from Itanium to Cisco UCS (PDF - 550 KB)
Get a quick overview of the migration and its benefits.

Hardware-Accelerated Virtual I/O (PDF - 361 KB)
Cisco and Red Hat have combined the Cisco Unified Computing System with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization software.

Design and Deployment Guides

Seibel RISC Migration Guide
Read how to migrate Siebel CRM from Solaris/SPARC to Cisco UCS with Red Hat Linux.

PeopleSoft RISC Migration Guide
Read how to migrate Oracle PeopleSoft from Solaris/SPARC to Cisco UCS with Red Hat Linux.

PeopleSoft Deployment Guide
Learn how to deploy Oracle PeopleSoft on Cisco UCS.

Cisco UCS for Oracle PeopleSoft Cisco Validated Design
Read how to migrate and deploy Oracle PeopleSoft on Cisco Unified Computing System.

PeopleSoft Migration Overview - Customer Success Story (PDF - 399 KB)
Learn how the University of Colorado's migration of their PeopleSoft Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system from Sun/Oracle servers based on the Cisco UCS running Red Hat Linux.

SAP Migration Guide (PDF - 804 KB)
Cisco IT's experience in migrating an SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) system running HP-UX on Hewlett-Packard servers to Cisco® UCS running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Siebel Migration Overview (PDF - 512 KB)
Learn how to migrate Siebel CRM applications to Cisco UCS and the business benefits of such a move.

Oracle RAC Migration Guide to the Cisco UCS
Get valuable information about migrating RISC/UNIX Oracle and SAP to the Cisco Unified Computing System.

Flexpod for SAP Applications Cisco Validated Design (PDF - 3.7 MB)
A study evaluating the usability of an shared infrastructure for SAP applications and SAP landscapes on Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers running VMware vSphere connected to the NetApp Storage array.

Deploying Oracle Real Application Clusters on Cisco UCS Cisco Validated Design
This design guide describes how to use Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) to implement an Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) system that is an Oracle Certified Configuration.

Performance Briefs

Cisco UCS Achieves TPC-C Benchmark (PDF - 247 KB)
Benchmark identifies Cisco Unified Computing System as an ideal platform for running an Oracle Database.

World-Record Virtualization Performance: Cisco UCS B440 Server (PDF - 198 KB)
Achieve higher consolidation ratios in virtualized environments, along with improved performance and reduced costs.

World-Record Virtualization Performance: Cisco UCS C460 Server (PDF - 313 KB)
Gain an industry-leading platform for virtualizing mission-critical applications.

Cisco Leads the Industry on Oracle E-Business Suite Benchmarks (PDF - 399 KB)
Learn how the Cisco UCS B200 M2 Blade Server achieved world-record-setting performance for supporting mission-critical applications.

Cisco UCS Delivers World-Record Application Server Performance (PDF - 337 KB)
Find out how the Cisco Unified Computing System delivered unmatched performance running Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Performance Comparison

Oracle E-Business Suite
See how Cisco outperforms IBM and HP when running Oracle applications.

Industry Standard Benchmark
View comparison data to see how Cisco UCS B-Series outperforms SPARC systems.

Presentations

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