Unified Data Center Products
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Unified Computing System
Scale service delivery and simplify requirements for data center setup, management, power, cooling, and cabling.
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Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers
- Optimize performance, energy efficiency, and flexibility
- Adapt processor performance to application demands and scale energy use
- Use network adapters for consolidated access to the unified fabric
- Reduce the number of adapters, cables, and access-layer switches needed for connectivity
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Cisco UCS 5100 Series Blade Server Chassis
- Accommodates up to eight half-width Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers
- Accommodates up to four full-width Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers
- Offers unified fabric and fabric-extender technology for data centers
- Uses industry-standard 19-inch rack and front-to-back cooling
- Reduces components and their management requirements, and improves energy efficiency
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Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Servers
- Reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase business agility
- Balance simplicity, performance, and density
- Support production-level virtualization and web infrastructure workloads
- Extend Unified Computing System (UCS) benefits to rack-mounted servers
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Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1240
- Integrated modular LAN interface on the motherboard (LOM) for the M3 generation of UCS blade servers
- Deliver 80 Gbps aggregate bandwidth to the server
- Reduce TCO by consolidating network interface cards, host bus adapters, and other devices
- Collapse networking infrastructure using Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) technology
- Provide I/O policy coherence and visibility to help enable workload mobility
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Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1280
- Delivers 80 Gbps aggregate bandwidth to server
- Reduces TCO by helping you consolidate interface cards, cables, switches, and physical servers
- Supports up to 256 Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) devices
- Collapses networking infrastructure using Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX)
- Provides I/O policy coherency and visibility to facilitate workload mobility
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Cisco UCS 6200 Series Fabric Interconnects
- Provides flexibility to choose LAN Ethernet, FCoE, or 1 or 10 Gigabit Ethernet
- Gives you the choice of SAN Native Fibre Channel 1, 2, 4, or 8 Gbps
- Increase bandwidth, scalability, performance, and choice of power supplies
- Reduce barriers to deploying a virtualized environment for data centers
- Provide LAN and SAN connectivity and unified management
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Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnects
- Use 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) functions
- Reduce barriers to deployment of a fully virtualized environment
- Provide LAN and SAN connectivity for all blades within device domain
- Centralize unified management with Cisco UCS Manager software
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Cisco UCS Manager
- Manages Cisco UCS servers as one entity across multiple blade chassis and rack servers
- Provides granular UCS visibility and control to higher-level systems tools
- Simplifies infrastructure provisioning, and shifts focus from maintenance to strategy
- Helps improve IT productivity and business agility through a programmable infrastructure
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Data Center Security
Strengthen security for your critical applications, infrastructure, and data while helping to ensure data privacy and regulatory compliance.
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Cisco ASA 5585-X Adaptive Security Appliance
- Provides intelligent threat defense and highly secure communications services
- Protects multimedia, highly transactional, and latency-sensitive applications
- Integrates firewalls, unified communications security, and VPN technology
- Implements capacity for scalability and investment protection
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Cisco Virtual Security Gateway
- Integrates with Cisco Nexus 1000V Switches and hypervisors
- Enforces security policy at the virtual machine level
- Isolates applications in virtual data centers and multi-tenant environments
- Enforces separation of duties between security and server administrators
- Improves visibility and compliance
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ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall
- Provides multi-tenant edge security, and default gateway functionality
- Protects against network-based attacks, using proven ASA security platform
- Complements VSG to help secure private and public cloud infrastructure
- Uses Cisco Nexus 1000V for increased flexibility and operational efficiency
- Is managed by multi-tenant, dynamic Virtual Network Management Center (VNMC)
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Data Center Switching
Increase business agility, simplify operations, and protect your investment with the architectural flexibility provided by data center switching.
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Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches
- Support core, aggregation, and access in Unified Fabric implementations
- Support virtualization and cloud computing innovations
- Deploy comprehensive Data Center Interconnect (DCI) solutions
- Deliver high resiliency, services and scalability in data centers of all sizes
- Provide high-density 1,10, 40, and 100 Gigabit Ethernet
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Cisco Nexus 6000 Series
- Provides high density 10 GE and 40 GE solution in a small four-rack-unit (RU) form factor
- Delivers rich integrated Layer 2 and 3 functionality at line rate and low latency
- Offers operational efficiency with Cisco Fabric Extender (FEX) architecture support and robust analytics tool kit
- Supports 40 GE Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) for LAN and SAN convergence
- Is ideal for high density access and space constrained aggregation deployments
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Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
- Consolidate data center while protecting investments with unified I/O
- Decrease total cost of ownership (TCO)
- Simplify data center infrastructure
- Increase business agility through pervasive data center virtualization
- Enhance business resiliency with greater operational continuity
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Cisco Nexus 3000 Series
- Offers Algo Boost capabilities with unprecedented performance, visibility, and control
- Delivers ultra-low latency for High-Performance Trading (HPT) and Big Data environments
- Increases application performance through wire-rate Layer 3 switching
- Simplifies management with Python scripting, EEM, and XML management tools
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Cisco Nexus 2000 Series
- Provides 100 MB, 1 GE to 10 GE server connectivity with 10 and 40 GE uplinks
- Optimizes space for top-of-rack (ToR) topologies
- Reduces data center cabling costs and footprint with optimized inter-rack cabling
- Extends support to partner blade servers like HP and Fujitsu
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Cisco Nexus 1000V Virtual Switch
- Delivers highly secure, multi-tenant services to data center networks
- Supports a range of virtual services nodes, such as VSG, vWAAS and ASA 1000V
- Built for cloud-ready scale with support for Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
- Facilitates broader virtual machine mobility and Layer 4-7 policy awareness
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Cisco Nexus 1010 Virtual Services Appliance
- Dedicated hardware platform for critical virtualization infrastructure
- Offloads application servers from running virtual service nodes
- Improves scalability and performance of virtualized data center
- Separates security policy management from VMware virtualization admins
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Cisco NX-OS for Nexus Switches
- Builds on proven LAN and SAN deployments
- Supported across Cisco Nexus and MDS switching families
- Offers high availability, virtualization services, and convergence
- Provides flexibility for integrating new innovations and evolving industry standards
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Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series
- Protects investments in traditional data centers
- Offers a service platform for data center environments
- Delivers features for operational management, high availability, and future upgrades
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Cisco Catalyst 4900 Series
- Supports up to 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
- Provides up to 320 Gbps forwarding capacity
- Supports critical routing protocols and IPv6 in hardware
- Features hot-swappable, redundant power supply and fans
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Data Center Management and Automation
Increase efficiency with IT automation products that save time, provide clear visibility, and strengthen control over operations.
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Cisco Virtual Network Management Center
- Rapid and scalable deployment through dynamic, template-driven policy management based on security profiles
- Easy operational management through XML APIs to help enable integration with third-party management and orchestration tools
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Cisco UCS Manager
- Manages Cisco UCS servers as one entity across multiple blade chassis and rack servers
- Provides granular UCS visibility and control to higher-level systems tools
- Simplifies infrastructure provisioning, and shifts focus from maintenance to strategy
- Helps improve IT productivity and business agility through a programmable infrastructure
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Cisco Data Center Network Manager
- Simplifies operations of virtualized and unified next-generation networks
- Provides single-pane-of-glass visibility across SAN and LAN technologies
- Deploys innovative NX-OS and SAN technologies quickly and efficiently
- Provides visibility into performance and capacity
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Cisco Network Services Manager
- Offers ability to create different levels of service tiers
- Defines the capabilities and resources available in each tier
- Specifies how VLANs, service capabilities, and virtual machines are defined and deployed
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Cisco Cloud Portal
- Deploy a private / public / hybrid cloud with a self-service portal
- Encourage adoption of standardized IT options from an online catalog
- Manage the lifecycle of services and enable pay-per-use tracking
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Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud
- Software stack that provides efficient IT management in cloud environments
- Supports all cloud models, as well as virtual and physical infrastructure
- Helps meet business demands for speed and adaptability
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Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler
- Eliminates errors and delays caused by multiple job scheduling tools
- Establishes single job scheduling standard for the enterprise
- Provides broad platform application coverage
- Automatically executes and tracks scheduled processes
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Cisco Process Orchestrator
- Provides a single platform for automating IT processes
- Supports best practices for many popular technologies
- Makes automation easier through a visual workflow development environment
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Cisco Tidal Intelligent Automation for SAP
- Automates SAP incident response, task management, and corrective actions
- Orchestrates complex operational processes
- Expedites automation through preconfigured SAP content
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Storage Networking
Cisco MDS solutions establish new benchmarks for storage networks with superior performance, reliability, and architectural flexibility.
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Cisco MDS 9700 Series Multilayer Directors
- Switching capacity to accommodate future physical, virtual, and cloud environments
- Up to 384 line rate 16-Gbps Fibre Channel or 10-Gbps FCoE ports
- Fully redundant components and fault tolerant design
- Multi-protocol innovations for architectural flexibility
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Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors
- Designed for large virtualized data center environments
- Up to 528 1/2/4/8-Gbps Fibre Channel ports
- Intelligent network services
- Platform for intelligent storage applications
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Cisco MDS 9200 Series Multilayer Fabric Switches
- State-of-the-art multiprotocol and multiservice convergence
- High-performance SAN extension
- Intelligent storage services
- Compact form-factor
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Cisco MDS 9100 Multilayer Fabric Switches
- Enterprise-level capabilities, such as virtualization and security
- Highly reliable and available performance
- Cost-effective incremental scalability
- Optimized storage for virtual server environments
- Simple configuration and management
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Cisco NX-OS Software for MDS 9000
- Enterprise-class operating software based on SAN-OS
- Unified operating environments for SAN and LAN
- VM-aware SAN can be enabled
- Support for advanced storage services within the fabric
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Application Networking Services
Protect critical applications, infrastructure, and data while increasing application availability and reducing costs.
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Cisco Network Analysis Module
- Improves delivery of business-critical applications
- Provides increased network traffic visibility and enhanced analytics
- Improves service with granular traffic analysis and performance metrics
- Helps you implement comprehensive voice analytics and packet captures
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Web Application Optimization with Cisco Application Control Engine
- Unifies your application delivery infrastructure
- Aligns application delivery with virtualization infrastructure
- Increases application, server, and virtual server availability
- Reduces power and cooling costs while accelerating application provisioning
