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Cisco UCS with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors

Cisco and Intel have loved an extended historical past of co-innovation and collaboration spanning many main know-how shifts together with 5G, IoT, and information middle transformation. On this final space, Cisco and Intel have labored collectively since 2009 to redefine the server computing class by means of groundbreaking capabilities within the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). In 2021, Cisco and Intel collectively delivered the UCS M6 servers in April adopted rapidly by the introduction of the extremely modular and future-ready UCS X-Collection in June.

At present, we’re resetting the bar once more with the seventh technology of UCS C-Collection and X-Collection servers that will likely be powered by 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. There are literally two parts of what Cisco and Intel are delivering. One, we’re offering our prospects with higher flexibility and extra efficiency for contemporary workloads with new C-Collection and X-Collection servers. Two, we’re delivering software acceleration with out compromise by supporting the Intel Information Middle GPU Flex Collection in our UCS X-Collection Material know-how, enabling prospects to help a wider vary of quickly evolving, more and more compute-intensive workloads.

Jonathan Davidson, EVP and Normal Supervisor of Cisco Networking,
congratulates Intel on its launch of its 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors

Addressing IT’s Prime-of-Thoughts Considerations

With our announcement, we’re instantly addressing two main considerations that just about each enterprise IT group is grappling with in the present day. The primary is the truth that enterprise workloads have gotten more and more dynamic and is necessitating widescale modernization of IT infrastructure. Moreover, Cisco analysis revealed that greater than half of the shoppers we surveyed are transferring their workloads between on and off-prem environments on a weekly foundation. This requires options that may remodel each infrastructure and operations to securely help the calls for of workloads equivalent to synthetic intelligence (e.g., machine studying), information analytics (e.g., huge information), storage (e.g., SDS), and environment friendly computing (e.g., digital desktop infrastructure).

The second concern is the rising scrutiny of IT organizations are going through to be extra sustainable of their operations by means of extra energy-efficient infrastructure and superior monitoring and administration programs. In actual fact, Gartner listed sustainability as its prime strategic know-how development for 2023 noting that corporations should “make investments extra in progressive options which might be designed to deal with ESG demand to satisfy sustainability objectives.”

UCS and Intersight Rise to the Problem Once more

This new class of next-generation UCS servers together with the simplified IT operations made potential by Cisco Intersight assist prospects resolve each points. We’re giving prospects extra choices throughout the UCS portfolio with two-socket 1RU/2RU rack servers and two & four-socket X-Collection modular compute nodes, all based mostly on the brand new 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs.

We’re additionally making the most of the future-ready and modular structure of the UCS X-Collection by persevering with to disaggregate applied sciences and remove historic compelled upgrades/forklifts when adopting new applied sciences. The power to help 2-socket and 4-socket, M6 and M7 technology compute nodes, and a wide range of GPUs in PCIe nodes all in the identical chassis is a proof level that the flexibleness of the UCS X-Collection modular design gives great funding safety. This flexibility allows UCS to help superior applied sciences equivalent to DDR5, PCIe 5.0, Compute Specific Hyperlink 1.1 (CXL), and now the Intel Information Middle GPU Flex Collection. Powered and managed by Intersight, the UCS X-Collection can help fashionable workloads effectively on a blade-server structure that has traditionally been solely sensible on rack-based servers.

This mixture of density, efficiency, modularity, and simplified manageability will ship quite a few compelling operational and sustainability advantages together with:

• Means to “do extra with much less” by decreasing the variety of programs with as much as a 4-to-1 consolidation ratio in comparison with earlier technology UCS servers whereas supporting extra and newer kinds of workloads.
• Means to scale back parts, units, and cabling by means of the brand new UCS X-Collection Material structure that may ship as much as 64 % higher efficiency and 31 % decrease energy utilization to earlier fashions for higher effectivity and sustainability.
• Means to realize sustainability from insurance policies & administration at scale by means of Cisco Intersight that gives prospects with international management of sustainability insurance policies in addition to fine-tuned visibility and management of different operations.

For extra data: Catch us at Cisco Stay! Amsterdam

The brand new UCS C-Collection and X-Collection servers will likely be orderable for patrons beginning in February. We will likely be sharing extra data by means of answer demos and talking periods at Cisco Stay Amsterdam (Feb. 6 by means of 10, 2023). Right here’s a partial checklist of the assets that will likely be accessible to attendees, each in-person and digital:

For now, I’d wish to personally thank and congratulate our valued companions at Intel for his or her momentous launch of the brand new 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors which might be powering our newest UCS platforms. It’s one other nice instance of how our two corporations are delivering breakthrough improvements and unprecedented worth for patrons all over the place.

Be part of our WEBINAR:

January 17, 2023
10:00 AM Pacific Time
(San Francisco, GMT-08:00)

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