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Together, Cisco and Microsoft provide the architectural flexibility, openness, and technology innovation you can build your enterprise on. Microsoft enterprise applications and Windows Server on Cisco data center solutions help you meet changing business requirements with trusted brands from two innovative companies.

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Microsoft Case Study

Microsoft Partner Solutions Center improves data center management and cuts cost with Cisco Unified Computing System. (PDF - 680 KB)

Exchange 2010 Solution Brief

Deploy a Next-Generation Messaging Platform with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 on Cisco UCS. (PDF - 2.7 MB)

FFA Case Study

National FFA Organization utilizes data center solutions to consolidate infrastructure and support rapid expansion. (PDF - 2.3 MB)

Cisco provides a highly secure, scalable server platform, which includes industry-leading compute hardware in the data center. This platform optimizes the Microsoft portfolio of enterprise applications and technologies, including:

Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft SQL Server online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing, and business intelligence solutions
Microsoft virtualization, for Hyper-V-based virtualization and private cloud offerings that includes server and virtual desktop initiatives

The Cisco platform balances the load on Microsoft web-based applications and optimizes Microsoft file-based application protocols to help ensure peak levels of service delivery. These applications can then be delivered to end users over a Cisco networking infrastructure and Cisco Unified Network Services.

More Than a Rock-Solid IT Infrastructure

Cisco also offers prescriptive guidance through Cisco Validated Designs, blueprints, and technologies. This can help you create a highly secure, optimized environment for your Microsoft application deployments.

Excel in Both Virtual and Physical Environments

Cisco data center and networking products support Microsoft's native hypervisor, Hyper-V. They help to optimize the Windows Server operating system and Microsoft applications, which scale better in the data center with Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). This scalability improves even more when Cisco UCS servers are offloaded by the Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE).

Improve Security and Optimize Performance Throughout Your Network

Microsoft enterprise applications are better secured by Cisco firewall and other technologies, and they can be secured even in the enterprise common cloud. They are optimized by industry-leading Cisco technologies, including:

Protocol optimization
WAN optimization
Network optimization

Gain Peace of Mind

Your high-performance, scalable enterprise IT infrastructure combined with valuable Cisco guidance, designs, and services helps your IT organization provide greater value to end users. As a result, you can focus more on your business and less on IT issues.

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