Unified Data Center Products
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Data Center Switching
Increase business agility, simplify operations, and protect your investment with the 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
- Deliver high resiliency and scalability in data centers of all sizes
- Provide high-density 1,10, 40, and 100 Gigabit Ethernet
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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
- Deliver ultra-low latency performance for high-frequency trading
- Deliver high port density for Big Data and Web 2.0 applications
- Provide high-density 1, 10, and 40 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity
- Support Layer 2/3 wire-rate switching, advanced unicast and multicast routing
- Simplify management with Python scripting, EEM, and XML management tools
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Cisco Nexus 2000 Series
- Provides several connectivity options: 100 MB, 1 GE, 10 GE, and 10GBASE-T
- Optimizes space for top-of-rack (ToR) topologies
- Offers a smooth transition from Gigabit Ethernet to 10 Gigabit Ethernet
- Reduces data center cabling costs and footprint with optimized inter-rack cabling
- Extends support to partner blade servers like HP BladeSystem
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Cisco Nexus 1000V Virtual Switch
- Builds on proven SAN-OS for LAN, WAN, and SAN deployments
- Is supported across Cisco Nexus, MDS, and UCS families
- Offers high availability, virtualization services, and convergence
- Provides flexibility for integrating innovations and evolving standards
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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
- Accommodates 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
- Promotes 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 UCS Manager
- Manages Cisco UCS servers across multiple blade chassis and rack servers
- Provides granular UCS visibility and control to higher-level systems tools
- Simplifies provisioning; shifts focus from maintenance to strategy
- Improve productivity and agility with 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 IOS technologies quickly and efficiently
- Monitors and provides forensics to help prevent outages
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Fabric Manager
- Implements GUI for SAN management of Cisco MDS and Cisco Nexus switches
- Simplifies management of large SANs and multiple fabrics
- Uses "wizards" for common operations (such as installation)
- 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, services, and virtual machines are designed 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
Deploy Cisco Unified Fabric solutions with unified management to simplify operations, enhance agility, and improve flexibility.
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Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors
- Implement highly scalable, converged storage networks
- Provide low TCO and ROI
- Meet rigorous requirements of multiprotocol, virtualized data centers
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Cisco MDS 9222i Multiservice Modular Switch
- Implements multiprotocol and distributed multiservice convergence
- Facilitates high-performance SAN extension and disaster recovery solutions
- Promotes intelligent fabric services, such as data migration and I/O acceleration
- Supports cost-effective multiprotocol connectivity
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Cisco MDS 9100 Multilayer Fabric Switches
- Provide enterprise-level capabilities, such as virtualization and security
- Deliver highly reliable and available performance
- Integrate cost-effective, incremental scalability
- Optimize storage for virtual server environments
- Simplify configuration and management
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Cisco MDS 9100 Blade Server Switches
- Delivers affordable, intelligent storage networking services
- Implements highly available platform for mission-critical deployments
- Simplifies storage management and speed troubleshooting
- Reduces TCO through a common platform architecture
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Cisco NX-OS Software for MDS 9000
- Delivers enterprise-class operating software based on SAN-OS
- Unifies operating environments for SAN and LAN
- Helps to enable VM-aware SANs
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Services-Oriented SANs
- Deploy integrated services into SAN fabric without disrupting operations
- Reduce deployment time due to performance gains of added service engines
- Integrate automatic load balancing and failover redirect to improve availability
- Offer transparent extension of SAN services by consolidating important tasks
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Cisco Fabric Manager
- Implements GUI for SAN management of Cisco MDS and Cisco Nexus switches
- Simplifies management of large SANs and multiple fabrics
- Uses "wizards" for common operations (such as installation)
- Provides visibility into performance and capacity
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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
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Data Center Security
Secure your critical applications, infrastructure, and data while ensuring 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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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 management requirements; 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 for M3 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
