Cisco UCS is an amazing #bigdata platform for a wide range of analytical functions. For example, with Cisco Data Preparation we were able to interactively execute myriad joins, merges, cleanses, transforms and more on a billion rows of data. That's right INTERACTIVELY. So the business analyst sees the how his preparation efforts on a BILLION rows of data IMMEDIATELY. That's ridiculously fast. And a nice complement to all the built-in resilience UCS Manager and Director provide.