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March 6, 2018

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Cisco UCS – Helping You Laugh All the Way to the Bank

I recently read a claim that Cisco UCS cost two times as much as the next vendor which made me laugh. I work routinely with account teams on competitive deals and this isn’t my experience. And I doubt anybody would buy UCS if this were truly the case. As one of my coworkers put it, “customers aren’t…

July 28, 2017

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It’s OK to be fashionably late when you bring 3 more Cisco UCS world records

When we announced our new M5 servers, we posted six new world record benchmarks. This late last week received confirmation of three more world records.     SPECjBB®2015 MultijVM – #1 4-socket server result for critical-jOPS. The Cisco UCS C480 M5 delivered 229,029 – a 78% increase wh…

July 12, 2017

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More of everything you love with Cisco UCS M5 Blade Servers

Yesterday we announced our fifth generation of UCS servers. Today I want to take a deeper look at the M5 blade servers. Tomorrow, I’ll tackle the M5 rack servers. More! More! More! The B200 M5 Blade Server has more of everything you love. More cores, more memory, more GPUs. Based on the Intel® Xeon®…

July 11, 2017

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Cisco UCS continues its world record tradition!

Contributing author: Vijay Durairaj Today we are announcing our latest generation of UCS servers based on the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family and 6 industry standard world record benchmarks. Since Cisco first entered the server business, we’ve been setting records and our new M5 servers are n…