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Telecom Lead Team: Cisco announced that its new
Cisco Unified Computing System has made over 10,000 customers worldwide,
including 3,000 in Europe.
Since it began
shipping in July 2009, UCS has captured 53 industry benchmark performance
world records, and garnered a dozen industry awards for innovation, the
company said in an official release.
Cisco UCS is an integrated
system, designed to optimize compute, networking, storage access,
virtualization and management.
The company
said that UCS tapped into a powerful market demand for a new approach to computing,
enabling IT organizations to unleash new business models with its innovative,
integrated architecture.
By using UCS
customers now are able to reduce the time to deploy new applications, improve
business agility and reduce costs.
Cisco’s UCS is
the first fabric computing platform that combines industry-standard,
x86-architecture servers with networking and storage access into an integrated
system.
Many industry
observers were skeptical that a new computing technology could take hold in
this highly competitive market, but the cost and business benefits proved
compelling across all industries and all workloads, company added.
According to a
recent Servers and Virtualization Study by TheInfoPro, Cisco took the lead
among server vendors in vision, technical innovation, product performance, and
sales force.
Over 30
billion kilowatt hours of energy per year could be saved by replacing aging
traditional servers and support infrastructure through unified computing and
virtualization in the data center. This equals the energy output of 15 U.S.
coal-fired electric plants and 35 million tons of CO2.
Monsanto, a
global provider of agricultural technology, Euronet Worldwide, The Chinese
University of Hong Kong, AudienceView Ticketing and Boston University Medical Center
are some of the major customers, who have deployed Cisco’s UCS.
Recently, Cisco announced that Cisco Videoscape will now help enable new “video
in the cloud” services that will drive new revenue streams for service
providers.
