Unified Computing – Celebrating 10 Years

Explore 10 years of UCS innovation

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2009

Cisco UCS Manager

Embedded role- and policy-based management eliminates the manual, time-consuming, error-prone process of server administration and automatically programs server identity, configuration, storage, and connectivity through more than 100 variables.

API supports automation at scale by enabling higher-level tools to program Cisco UCS infrastructure.
Service profiles and templates embody best practices for server configuration, making it as easy to deploy hundreds of servers as it is to deploy one.

vBlock

The birth of an entire era of converged infrastructure started in 2009 with vBlock, created by the VCE Coalition. Today Cisco's converged infrastructure solutions span all leading storage technologies.

2010

FlexPod

In collaboration with NetApp, FlexPod™ expands our converged infrastructure offerings and went on to be the industry's #1 solution (according to IDC Worldwide Integrated Infrastructure and Platforms Tracker 2013Q2).

2011

2012

Cisco UCS Central Software

Now you can manage multiple Cisco USC domains using a single management console across your enterprise.

2013

Cisco UCS Director

Infrastructure automation for our converged infrastructure offerings, including servers, networking, and storage with a simplified workflow-based approach.

2014

4th-generation Cisco UCS servers

By the time our fourth-generation blade and rack servers were released we had delivered 126 world-record performance results.

4th-generation Cisco UCS servers diagram

VersaStack

VersaStack™ integrated infrastructure solution with Cisco and IBM pairs Cisco UCS with IBM Storwize storage.

2015

2016

Cisco HyperFlex® systems

As simple as 1, 2, 3. Cisco’s first hyperconverged infrastructure leapfrogs the competition to simplify deployment and management from core to cloud to edge.

Storage-optimized servers

With the explosion of data, a modular smart storage approach, based on Cisco UCS, lets you start small and grow storage and computing as you need it.

2017

5th-generation Cisco UCS servers

2018

Cisco HyperFlex for multicloud

Cisco HyperFlex systems for multicloud enable IT to be at the center of rapid innovation with consistent management regardless of where your workload runs.

AI/ML optimized server

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are opening up new ways for enterprises to solve complex problems. To meet these challenges, we deliver our first server built specifically for AI and ML workloads.

2019

Cisco UCS server update

Cisco UCS servers claim 7 new world records on industry benchmarks with 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.

2007 Industry-leading networking technologies

Introduced networking technologies essential for Cisco UCS®: a unified fabric supporting 10 Gigabit Ethernet with Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), converged network adapters, fabric extenders, virtual networking, and end-host mode.

Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®)

The industry's first self-aware, self-integrating, programmable infrastructure designed to eliminate the time-consuming, error-prone tasks of server administration.

Management built into the system's fabric interconnects.
Integrates advanced networking capabilities that interconnect servers and virtual machines.
Blade server offerings set 8 world records for performance in the first year, including extended memory footprint to better support virtualization.

Cisco UCS rack servers

The industry's first rack servers designed to operate either standalone or as part of a Cisco UCS management domain with single-wire management. Today, the Cisco UCS unified API enables many third-party tools to manage them using DevOps practices.

2nd-generation Cisco UCS servers

A new generation of blade and rack servers testifies to our commitment to the server market and the longevity of the blade server chassis. This generation of servers would go on to set an astounding 40 world records for performance.

96-port fabric interconnects

The second generation of interconnect technology ushered in a 96-port fabric interconnect that enables higher scale. Unified ports can be used for unified fabric or native Fibre Channel connectivity.

3rd-generation Cisco UCS servers

Our third generation of blade and rack servers expanded our portfolio to 6 blade and 7 rack server models to support a broad range of enterprise applications and continue to deliver world-record performance, including cloud, database, Big Data, Java Virtual Machines, and transaction processing.

7,500 Cisco UCS customers

Cisco UCS ranks in the top 5 server vendors

Cisco blade and rack servers grow, placing the company among the top 5 server vendors.

#1 in North American x86 blade server market

Cisco achieved the ranking of #1 provider of x86 blade servers in the Americas, measured by revenue market share.

According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, 2014 Q1, May 2014, Vendor Revenue Share, Cisco is also ranked as the top x86 blade server vendor in the United States and North America.

Cisco UCS Mini

Our first offering that helps you extend centrally managed computing to the network edge.

FlashStack

Cisco and Pure Storage offer hybrid and all-flash storage solutions in the form of FlashStack converged infrastructure.

40-Gbps fabric interconnects

A new generation of network fabric can drop into UCS clusters and blade chassis to support big data and streaming technology with more bandwidth.

85% of Fortune 500 has adopted Cisco UCS

Container integration

Cisco and Docker formed a strategic alliance to deliver essential container capabilities for application-centric data center and cloud infrastructure.

Cisco Intersight™ software as a service

The Intersight platform manages your infrastructure wherever it is through cloud-based or data-center-resident, analytics-powered software.

Multinode rack servers

Cisco UCS C-Series Multinode Rack Servers powered by AMD EPYC processors make high-intensity compute clusters accessible and affordable for analytics workloads.

100-Gbps fabric interconnects

More data means more bandwidth requirements. Cisco delivers 100-Gbps fabric interconnects capable of 10-, 25-, 40-, and 100-Gbps connectivity to keep your data flowing without bottlenecks.

Cisco HyperFlex Edge

Cisco HyperFlex Edge solutions bring the flexibility and simplicity of hyperconvergence with massive scale to your remote, branch, retail, and industrial locations. The Intersight Invisible Cloud Witness simplifies and speeds 2-node cluster deployment.

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