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Infrastructure Consolidation

Introduction

Improve Agility and Reduce Expenses

Cisco infrastructure consolidation solutions and services can help you improve agility and reduce costs. These solutions can help you:

  • Consolidate and relocate IT infrastructure quickly, cost-effectively, and with less risk
  • Ensure more efficient use of data center facilities
  • Gain operational efficiencies and cost savings through standardization and asset consolidation
  • Increase asset utilization to increase flexibility and reduce costs
  • Reduce total cost of ownership
  • Optimize energy consumption and achieve corporate sustainability goals

Featured Products

Nexus Data Center Switches

Nexus Data Center Switches

Designed to meet the stringent requirements of next-generation data centers.

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Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Director

Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Director

The multilayer director switch (MDS) addresses the stringent requirements of large data center storage environments.

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Cisco Wide Area Application Services

Cisco Wide Area Application Services

Reduce branch office IT footprint by centralizing applications and storage in the data center while maintaining LAN-like application performance.

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As your business evolves, infrastructure sprawl becomes a key IT challenge. Your IT organization may have to manage and maintain multiple, redundant data centers and the components of an often highly distributed environment. This increases total cost of ownership (TCO) and limits productivity and business growth.

Cisco infrastructure consolidation solutions help you simplify, standardize, and reduce server, network, and storage infrastructure. They help you lower costs, control resource sprawl, improve capital asset use, and maintain the highest levels of service to your clients.

These solutions include:

  • Server consolidation: simplify server connectivity, cabling, data center infrastructure, administration, and management
  • Storage consolidation: increase flexibility, simplify network and storage management, and ensure consistent data life cycle management
  • Branch IT consolidation: reduce cost of remote IT, improve remote employee productivity, and accelerate data protection by centralizing IT resources

Products & Key Functionality

  • Cisco Unified Computing System
    Accelerate the delivery of new services simply, reliably, and securely through end-to-end provisioning and support for virtualized and nonvirtualized systems.
  • Cisco Nexus Series Switches
    Next-generation unified fabric switches meet the business, service, application, and operational requirements of tomorrow's data center.
  • Cisco Nexus 1000V switch
    Deliver tightly integrated network services as part of both a server virtualization strategy and a broader data center virtualization strategy.
  • VN-Link
    Bridge server, storage, and network management domains to help ensure consistent operations and policy enforcement between physical and virtual environments.
  • Unified Fabric
    Simplify server connectivity, cabling, data center infrastructure, administration, and management.
  • Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors
    MDS addresses the stringent requirements of large data center storage environments.
  • Virtual SAN and Inter-VSAN Routing
    Consolidate disparate SAN islands onto a single SAN fabric while maintaining segmentation, security, and compliance.
  • Cisco Wide Area Application Services
    Reduce branch office IT footprint by centralizing applications and storage in the data center while maintaining LAN-like application performance.

Services
Featured Content

Making Your Data Center More Dynamic (PDF - 206 KB)
A Forrester study reveals what you can do to get more out of your existing infrastructure and progressively capitalize on virtual infrastructure.

Australia's Oldest University Aims for Excellence with New Data Center Architecture (PDF - 1 MB)
Sydney University re-architects its data center around Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches to create an adaptive, virtualized network foundation for future growth.

Global Law Firm Selects Switch Solution and Storage Upgrade for Data Center (PDF - 168 KB)
McDermott Will & Emery deploys Cisco Nexus 5000 and MDS Directors to consolidate I/O and unify SAN fabrics.

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Relevant Solutions
Branch IT Consolidation

Network Consolidation

Server Consolidation

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