Thanks for the article and in addition to what Brian has quoted... same with Big Data Analytics on UCS - IDC The Business Value of Cisco UCS for Big Data and Analytics: 426% five-year ROI, 51% lower cost of operations, 9 months to breakeven, 40% more efficient to manage, 96% less unplanned downtime, 51% faster to run queries and finally 38% lower hardware costs!!! https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/solutions/collateral/data-center-virtualization/big-data/ucs-exec-sum.pdf