Over the years, Cisco and Intel have labored collectively to ship breakthrough improvements that empower fashionable enterprises. Today, we’re introducing the following part in knowledge heart modernization: the eighth era Cisco UCS C-Series and Cisco UCS X-Series servers powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors.
At Cisco, we’re devoted to offering scalable, safe, and high-performance infrastructure for companies. With this announcement, we’re excited to offer our clients with enhanced compute efficiency, AI acceleration, and effectivity for demanding workloads, equivalent to AI-driven analytics and hybrid cloud purposes. Together with Intel, we’re serving to enterprises run mission-critical workloads—higher, sooner, and smarter.
Delivering larger alternative, flexibility, and efficiency
For clients searching for larger alternative and suppleness to satisfy their numerous computing wants, Cisco’s next-generation lineup of UCS C-Series and X-Series servers (Figure 1) now helps Enterprise and Data Center Solid State Drives (SSD) Form Factor (EDSFF) E3.S Non-Volatile Memory specific (NVMe) SSDs, which provide greater efficiency, improved thermal administration, and elevated storage density. We additionally proceed to help conventional Small Form Factor (SFF) drives versatile sufficient to deal with a large number of native storage wants, in addition to bigger kind issue drives for high-capacity and lower cost/GB storage.
Intel Xeon 6 processors complement these new servers by delivering distinctive efficiency, providing as much as 86 cores per socket with excessive Layer 3 cache capability and low latency entry, supporting as much as eight reminiscence channels for optimum efficiency. They additionally present excellent reminiscence bandwidth and efficiency by leveraging the quickest Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) reminiscence accessible, together with DDR5-6400 and Multiplexed Rank DIMMs (MRDIMMs).
Both UCS collection platforms (Figure 2), which embrace the UCS C220 M8 Rack Server, UCS C240 M8 Rack Server, and UCS X210c M8 Compute Node, proceed to characteristic modular tri-mode RAID controllers suitable with SAS/SATA HDDs/SSDs and U.3 NVMe SSDs to extend pace and effectivity, together with fault tolerance, in addition to greater density help in knowledge facilities and enterprise environments.
UCS X-Series gives optionally available Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) node connectivity for extra GPU help. This provisioning flexibility permits enterprises to simply scale as much as enhance the consumer expertise and utility efficiency. The X210c M8 Compute Node could be paired with the UCS X440p PCIe Node to help as much as 4 GPUs.
In addition, UCS C-Series now options hot-swappable M.2 SATA SSDs, offering improved serviceability and suppleness for boot drives and storage enlargement in enterprise environments.
Jeremy Foster, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco Compute,
highlights how Cisco UCS and next-gen Xeon 6 supercharge efficiency
and AI acceleration.
Simplifying and automating IT operations
Management utilizing Cisco Intersight is a key differentiator for the UCS platform. It helps IT operations groups see, management, and automate their Cisco UCS converged and hyperconverged infrastructure all through its lifecycle from one place. It consolidates and automates infrastructure lifecycle administration from the information heart to the sting in a single answer delivered as a service.
This is a strong operations platform that’s preferrred for IT groups dealing with rising calls for for compute sources, staffing shortages, and rising safety threats. Being in a position to successfully and easily help conventional and new AI workloads on-premises and in edge places is of paramount significance—and Intersight makes it potential.
Sustainable, safe, high-performance knowledge facilities
Data facilities are on the core of an incredible digital transformation. But this transformation isn’t with out challenges—from rising calls for for computing energy, safety, and vitality. IT groups can’t stand nonetheless. And with our new UCS C-Series and X-Series, powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors, they don’t must. They can scale back their energy consumption, decrease their complete value of possession, and scale operations effectively—all with out sacrificing the excessive efficiency they want. Today’s announcement is greater than a next-generation computing platform—it’s a strategic funding in a sustainable and high-performance future.
Congratulations to our valued companions at Intel for his or her launch. This is one more instance of how our two corporations proceed to drive innovation and ship worth for purchasers.
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