Cisco Drives Simplified Operations and Vitality Effectivity with Intersight and UCS X-Sequence

Introduction of latest Intersight licensing and a brand new vitality effectivity bundle

One of many privileges of my position is my frequent interplay with clients around the globe as I did just lately at Cisco Dwell EMEA in Amsterdam. With every buyer assembly, I proceed to construct my library of insights that materialize as patterns of behaviors, alternatives, and points that matter probably the most to our clients. Right here’s what I’ve been noticing these days.

Clients wish to simplify operations in order that they will deploy infrastructure and workloads quicker. Safety is a top-of-mind difficulty, particularly because the environments our clients are managing turn into extra complicated and distributed throughout completely different domains. Uptime stays a precedence and clients are at all times trying to scale back or forestall downtime from {hardware} points or infrastructure administration duties, akin to firmware administration. And, extra just lately, clients I meet with are taking a look at sustainability as a business-critical difficulty in each the applied sciences they deploy and for his or her operations as a complete. This was definitely the case in my conferences with European clients however I’m listening to extra about this from clients in different areas as properly.

Continued evolution of Intersight to drive simplified operations

We constructed Cisco Intersight as a platform to ship unified experiences and simplified operations for at present’s digital-first enterprises. It’s a cloud-delivered lifecycle administration and automation platform to function compute, storage, and networking infrastructure assets throughout knowledge facilities, clouds, and to the sting. Intersight is continually evolving and delivers steady buyer worth by leveraging the agility, velocity, and scale of a software-as-a-service platform that’s each multi-tenant and API-driven.

current instance of that is our Intersight’s EMEA occasion, which marks the primary regional growth to supply European clients key advantages akin to knowledge sovereignty, higher efficiency, and decrease latency. The EMEA occasion is at present in know-how preview and is predicted to be usually accessible later this 12 months. Intersight clients normally achieve entry to new ranges of simplified operations for his or her prime use circumstances that now we have seen emerge together with:

• Fleet administration: Permitting customers to arrange and handle stock spanning a number of machine sorts deployed throughout a number of areas.
• Monitoring with proactive help: Logs and metrics assortment about infrastructure well being, efficiency, energy consumption, utilization, value to ship analytics and predictive steerage.
• Automation: Enable consumer to create operational workflows and automate day 0 to day N operations.
• Sustainability: Visualize, monitor, and configure fine-grained controls to optimize energy consumption, useful resource utilization & prices.

Simplifying Intersight’s licensing

As we speak, we’re blissful to announce that we’re additionally simplifying the buying and procurement course of for Intersight. Particularly, we’re consolidating licensing from 4 tiers down to 2, Necessities and Benefit, every with a set of performance and making it simpler for our clients to pick out the proper tier for his or her companies.

• Necessities: Designed to allow full lifecycle operations with proactive help & service to be used circumstances akin to managing server profiles/insurance policies, managing firmware updates, and proactive well being monitoring & safety advisories, together with many different capabilities.
• Benefit: Builds on all the capabilities of Necessities with in-platform and ecosystem automation layered in to be used circumstances akin to low/no-code cloud orchestration, superior server operations, multi-domain visibility, and third-party integration, e.g., IT Service Administration (ITSM).

Accelerating vitality effectivity with UCS X-Sequence + Intersight

We’re additionally introducing a brand new supply that can simplify and speed up how clients can deploy extra energy-efficient computing programs and operations in a single handy bundle. The supply is constructed on the Cisco UCS X-series Modular System and its unmatched efficiency, unparalleled effectivity, and future-ready structure that helps clients hold tempo with and combine the following decade of compute, cloth, and peripheral improvements akin to liquid cooling and CXL (compute categorical hyperlinks). The bundle additionally options Intersight with its superior visibility, monitoring, and management capabilities together with the flexibility to ascertain and apply granular energy insurance policies to all assets it manages.

As famous in a earlier weblog, the mixture of the newest UCS X-Sequence and Intersight delivers highly effective advantages when it comes to energy-efficiency and simplified operations akin to:

• Capacity to “do extra with much less” by lowering the variety of programs with as much as a 4-to-1 consolidation ratio in comparison with earlier era UCS servers whereas supporting extra and newer sorts of workloads.*
• Capacity to cut back parts, gadgets, and cabling by the brand new UCS X-Sequence Cloth structure that may ship as much as 64 p.c higher efficiency and 31 p.c decrease energy utilization to earlier fashions for higher effectivity and sustainability.*
• Capacity to attain sustainability from insurance policies & administration at scale by Cisco Intersight that gives clients with international management of sustainability insurance policies in addition to fine-tuned visibility and management of different operations.

The supply is on the market now to new X-Sequence clients together with clients who’ve bought earlier era UCS servers. Clients should buy a minimum of six UCS X210 compute nodes with an Intersight license subscription per node to qualify for a most of 4 free chassis and pair of UCS Cloth Interconnects per buyer.

How you can get began

Uncover extra details about the brand new Intersight licenses and the brand new vitality effectivity bundle. The supply is legitimate for a restricted time so act now!

* Outcomes based mostly on Cisco lab checks evaluating UCS X-Sequence to UCS B-Sequence and C-Sequence

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