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(This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/mother99/jacksonholdingcompany.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114When we introduced our first compute platform in 2009 with Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers<\/a>, there was a fair amount of snickering from industry watchers and established server vendors. Most didn\u2019t e\u2026 Read more on Cisco Blogs<\/a><\/p>\n \u200b[[{“value”:”<\/p>\n When we introduced our first compute platform in 2009 with Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers<\/a>, there was a fair amount of snickering from industry watchers and established server vendors. Most didn\u2019t expect us to last in the compute market for more than a few years.<\/p>\n Not only are we still in the server business 15 years later, but the UCS B-Series is still a widely used, fully supported platform that continues to pay dividends for those who took the leap all those years ago.<\/p>\n As many will attest, this is not the norm. Whether it\u2019s because of shorter support windows, frequent changes to chassis designs, or an inability to accommodate evolving power, cooling, and processing requirements, most server platforms need to be replaced every handful of years.<\/p>\n That was too disruptive and costly for Nathan Bullock, IT Operations Manager at Interstates, a construction industry leader based in Iowa. Bullock said the company was being forced into chassis replacements or major upgrades involving midplanes and backplanes just to leverage the newer blades.<\/p>\n Tired of the constant refresh cycle, Interstates deployed UCS X-Series<\/a>, the successor to UCS B-Series that improves on the seminal platform in every way and was designed to last just as long\u2014if not longer.<\/p>\n \u201cI think Cisco UCS X-Series is the first platform that truly delivers on the promise of next-gen computing, where you can upgrade on the fly and continually tailor the environment to meet the needs of the business,\u201d Bullock said. \u201cAnd the longevity of the platform has really hit home with our finance, procurement, and executive teams.\u201d<\/p>\n So, how did we create a server platform that lasts well over a decade when the industry-standard is 5\u201310 years?<\/p>\n First and foremost, we leveraged our unparalleled networking expertise and applied it toward server innovation. We created a unified fabric<\/a> that simplifies the connectivity between server, storage, and networking systems. More importantly, it eliminates the need for a fixed data plane inside the chassis, which represents the single most limiting factor in other server platforms.<\/p>\n Technologies change and evolve. The less you hardwire into the chassis, the more flexibility and longevity the chassis will provide.<\/p>\n Because of our groundbreaking unified fabric, UCS B-Series was able to seamlessly evolve from 10G to 40G using industry-standard connectors while other server platforms reached the power, cooling, and processing limitations of their fixed data plane. UCS X-Series provides an equally impressive upgrade path, ready to support the 10G\/25G\/40G\/100G needs of today and 400G\/800G needs of tomorrow.<\/p>\n \u201cOur infrastructure is future proof,\u201d said Rod Lucero, CTO of Xigent, an IT services leader that recently deployed the platform to support its new full-stack observability (FSO) offerings. \u201cWith UCS X-Series, we have a 100G backbone that can easily move to 400G and beyond. It gives us 14 years of runway and a ton of flexibility.\u201d<\/p>\n That flexibility extends well beyond connectivity and network speed. UCS X-Series is fully modular, meaning different components\u2014like CPUs, GPUs, and memory\u2014can be mixed, matched, and swapped over time.<\/p>\n \u201cSome of our workloads are more memory intensive than CPU intensive,\u201d Bullock said of Interstates\u2019 application portfolio. \u201cWith this new platform, we can tune each box for our specific needs instead of constantly overprovisioning or buying new ones.\u201d<\/p>\n And they can adapt or upgrade those boxes as needed over an extended period of time.<\/p>\n For Xigent, the modularity of UCS X-Series has opened new service possibilities involving artificial intelligence\/machine learning (AI\/ML), high-performance computing (HPC), virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and GPU-enabled workloads. And the simplicity of our cutting-edge management platform, Cisco Intersight<\/a>, has supercharged their internal operations.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can see and orchestrate all of the compute, storage, and networking systems in our data centers with Cisco Intersight, and it\u2019s so easy to move things around,\u201d Lucero said. \u201cWe can take excess capacity from one data center, move it to the other, and make it available to a customer within a day if they have an urgent need\u2014all from a single console.\u201d<\/p>\n As you consider your next server refresh or upgrade, be sure to look back as well as forward. There\u2019s only one platform that will reliably serve your needs until 2040\u2014and possibly beyond.<\/p>\n Read the Interstates case study<\/a> “}]]\u00a0\u00a0Learn how the Cisco UCS B-Series seamlessly evolved from 10G to 40G by using industry-standard connectors \u2014 while other server platforms were limited by the power, cooling, and processing of their fixed data plane. UCS X-Series provides an equally impressive upgrade path, ready to support the 10G\/25G\/40G\/100G needs of today and 400G\/800G needs of tomorrow.\u00a0\u00a0Read More<\/a>\u00a0Cisco Blogs\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/p>\n When we introduced our first compute platform in 2009 with Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers<\/a>, there was a fair amount of snickering from industry watchers and established server vendors. Most didn\u2019t e\u2026 Read more on Cisco Blogs<\/a><\/p>\n \u200b[[{“value”:”<\/p>\n When we introduced our first compute platform in 2009 with Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers<\/a>, there was a fair amount of snickering from industry watchers and established server vendors. Most didn\u2019t expect us to last in the compute market for more than a few years.<\/p>\n Not only are we still in the server business 15 years later, but the UCS B-Series is still a widely used, fully supported platform that continues to pay dividends for those who took the leap all those years ago.<\/p>\n As many will attest, this is not the norm. Whether it\u2019s because of shorter support windows, frequent changes to chassis designs, or an inability to accommodate evolving power, cooling, and processing requirements, most server platforms need to be replaced every handful of years.<\/p>\n That was too disruptive and costly for Nathan Bullock, IT Operations Manager at Interstates, a construction industry leader based in Iowa. Bullock said the company was being forced into chassis replacements or major upgrades involving midplanes and backplanes just to leverage the newer blades.<\/p>\n Tired of the constant refresh cycle, Interstates deployed UCS X-Series<\/a>, the successor to UCS B-Series that improves on the seminal platform in every way and was designed to last just as long\u2014if not longer.<\/p>\n \u201cI think Cisco UCS X-Series is the first platform that truly delivers on the promise of next-gen computing, where you can upgrade on the fly and continually tailor the environment to meet the needs of the business,\u201d Bullock said. \u201cAnd the longevity of the platform has really hit home with our finance, procurement, and executive teams.\u201d<\/p>\n So, how did we create a server platform that lasts well over a decade when the industry-standard is 5\u201310 years?<\/p>\n First and foremost, we leveraged our unparalleled networking expertise and applied it toward server innovation. We created a unified fabric<\/a> that simplifies the connectivity between server, storage, and networking systems. More importantly, it eliminates the need for a fixed data plane inside the chassis, which represents the single most limiting factor in other server platforms.<\/p>\n Technologies change and evolve. The less you hardwire into the chassis, the more flexibility and longevity the chassis will provide.<\/p>\n Because of our groundbreaking unified fabric, UCS B-Series was able to seamlessly evolve from 10G to 40G using industry-standard connectors while other server platforms reached the power, cooling, and processing limitations of their fixed data plane. UCS X-Series provides an equally impressive upgrade path, ready to support the 10G\/25G\/40G\/100G needs of today and 400G\/800G needs of tomorrow.<\/p>\n \u201cOur infrastructure is future proof,\u201d said Rod Lucero, CTO of Xigent, an IT services leader that recently deployed the platform to support its new full-stack observability (FSO) offerings. \u201cWith UCS X-Series, we have a 100G backbone that can easily move to 400G and beyond. It gives us 14 years of runway and a ton of flexibility.\u201d<\/p>\n That flexibility extends well beyond connectivity and network speed. UCS X-Series is fully modular, meaning different components\u2014like CPUs, GPUs, and memory\u2014can be mixed, matched, and swapped over time.<\/p>\n \u201cSome of our workloads are more memory intensive than CPU intensive,\u201d Bullock said of Interstates\u2019 application portfolio. \u201cWith this new platform, we can tune each box for our specific needs instead of constantly overprovisioning or buying new ones.\u201d<\/p>\n And they can adapt or upgrade those boxes as needed over an extended period of time.<\/p>\n For Xigent, the modularity of UCS X-Series has opened new service possibilities involving artificial intelligence\/machine learning (AI\/ML), high-performance computing (HPC), virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and GPU-enabled workloads. And the simplicity of our cutting-edge management platform, Cisco Intersight<\/a>, has supercharged their internal operations.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can see and orchestrate all of the compute, storage, and networking systems in our data centers with Cisco Intersight, and it\u2019s so easy to move things around,\u201d Lucero said. \u201cWe can take excess capacity from one data center, move it to the other, and make it available to a customer within a day if they have an urgent need\u2014all from a single console.\u201d<\/p>\n As you consider your next server refresh or upgrade, be sure to look back as well as forward. There\u2019s only one platform that will reliably serve your needs until 2040\u2014and possibly beyond.<\/p>\n Read the Interstates case study<\/a>Designing for the future<\/h2>\n
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