Data Center Products
A data centre has to satisfy many demands of today’s business world: fast reactions to market changes, few new acquisitions, no commitment of resources through rebuilding and migrations and prompt productive readiness to name but a few. This can only be accomplished if the complete DC infrastructure guarantees the greatest possible flexibility combined with the lowest management effort.
Magirus’ answer to these requirements is the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). Due to its integrated design, this system improves a company’s availability, security, performance and flexibility.
The Cisco Unified Computing System offers:
- Higher IT staff productivity and also more flexible business adjustments for companies through just-in-time provision and mobility support for virtualized and non-virtualised environments
- Lower overall operating costs for the server platform and computer centre operation
- A seamlessly integrated system which is managed, maintained and tested as a whole
- Scalability through a design for up to 320 servers and thousands of virtual machines and also the ability to scale I/O bandwidth according to requirements
- Open industry standards which are supported by a whole eco-system of market-leading partners
Not just the operating costs are lowered in subsequent operation with this solution approach, which is mainly based on simplified, central management. Cost reductions are already achieved during the setting up of the I/O infrastructure and the cabling through the use of new technologies such as DCE (Data Center Ethernet) and FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet).
Magirus has decided on collaboration with Cisco in the field of data centre computing because Cisco has long-term experience in gathering customer requirements and providing appropriate solid, innovative technology for computer centres. Cisco offers solutions based on standards. Behind this there is a broadly based “ecosystem” of partners, often market leaders in their field, who provide comprehensive customer solutions.
Unified Computing abolishes the traditional product classification of network, servers, storage, operating system and applications and replaces them with an architecture which covers the entire computing centre. With the VCE Alliance (VMware, Cisco, EMC) the largest technology providers in the world are in a position to integrate the Unified Computing vision into one seamlessly collaborating solution.