Strong competitive advantages in fabric architecture and application integration allow Cisco to provide value-added networking performance, distinguishing Cisco solutions from commodity networking. Other key market trends include the emergence of open network standards accommodating multi-vendor solutions, software-based programmable network control, and the ability of the network to interface directly with applications to improve performance, increase responsiveness, and streamline network management.
This campaign is designed to help you sell Cisco Nexus Series and MDS SAN switches by describing how these products address the challenges of next-generation data centres. Target customers with migration and up-sell opportunities and help them reduce costs and improve network efficiency with next-generation switching solutions.
Products: Nexus 2K-9K, MDS, 1Kv, VSG, and VASA Solutions: Open Network Environment (ONE)
Target Audience - BDM: CIO, VP IT TDM: Director of IT, Data Centre Manager, IT Architect, Network Admin
Key Competitors- IBM, HP, Juniper, Brocade, Arista, Huawei
Assets - Call Guides, Campaign Implementation Guide, Playbook, Reference case, Whitepapers, Emails
Languages - Access the campaign assets on Partner Marketing Central English, Korean, Japanese
Technologies such as virtualization, big data, cloud, mobility, and distributed applications are enabling the data center to support priorities like never before, making data center network performance and capacity more relevant than ever. Take steps today to ensure your network is prepared for opportunities to gain increased efficiency and flexibility.
Upgrading your existing Nexus switches to the feature rich Nexus 9300 Cloud Scale ToR switches with the cost advantage of 25G/100G at price of 10/40G. This campaign focus on how to help transform your customer network to embrace the power of cloud, analytics, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Cisco Nexus 9000 switches running on Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) will provide many benefits* such as:
• Reduced IT effort in implementation and ongoing operations • Over 50% reduction in datacenter build-out time and effort • 35% less ongoing administration effort • 20% lower hardware cost in initial datacenter build-out and supporting growth • Improved user productivity from better uptime and system performance • 4 fewer hours of application/datacenter downtime that impact employees
Install base target of 2/5k Nexus Switches to Upgrade to Nexus 9k
Target Audience
Install base target: 2/5k Nexus Switches
Key Competitors
Wireless: HP/Aruba, Brocade/Ruckus Routing: HP, Juniper, Huawei, Viptela Switching: HP, Arista
Timeframe- Available now
Languages - Access the campaign assets on Partner Marketing Central AP (English, Thai, Vietnamese)
Assets - Call guide, Customer Presentation, Promotion Flyer for Customer, Pre-call and Post-call Emails, Nexus 9K case study (Sutterfly), ACI case study (Siam City Cement) DC Innovations Videos and Enablement contents
Email Journey Self Service, Events & Telemarketing
Cisco has expanded its data center portfolio with the next generation of hyperconverged infrastructure: Cisco HyperFlex™ Systems. These new systems combine compute, storage, and networking and deliver the premier scale-out hyperconvergence solution for virtual desktop infrastructure, test and development systems, large ROBO, and a wide range of other common workloads.
Help your customers
• Build a hybrid IT strategy • Simplify Citrix XenDesktop • Rapidly deploy VMware View • Improve operational efficiency • Accelerate VDI Adoption • Speed up SAP design
In support of this new solution, Cisco has created a set of assets and offers aimed at helping Cisco Partners generate demand and on-going dialogue with new and existing customers.
• Generate demand with existing UCS installed base • Target non-UCS customers with hyperconverged and create opportunities to generate leads for UCS
Cisco HyperFlex – HX-series
• Simplified data management • Continuous data optimization • Flash Optimized • Independent scaling
IT Operations Staff: Server Administrators, Virtualization Engineers IT Leadership: Infrastructure Operations Director/VP, IT Architects
Nutanix, DellEMC, HPE, VMWare
Languages - Access the campaign assets on Partner Marketing Central English
Assets - Call guide, Battlecard, Social media copy, At-a-glance, Solution Brief & Overview, Whitepapers, DC Innovations Videos and Enablement contents
Email Workflow
With innovations inspired by customers, Cisco shatters convention once again, delivering new systems and software that bring the power of Unified Computing to data-intensive analytics, applications at the edge, and the next generation of scale-out workloads.
Cisco leads the industry with a Unified, application-centric approach to computing. Building on the architectural foundations, partnerships, and rapid customer adoption of UCS, Cisco now delivers the next wave of Unified Computing: It’s not a server. It’s a system.
Increase footprint and accelerate revenue within existing UCS accounts and have opportunities to land new accounts.
All new M5 generate on of UCS rack and blade servers create server refresh opportunities triggered by TCO savings (improved computing density and power efficiency) and increased application performance (speed-seekers).
Existing UCS M2, M3, M4 customers
DellEMC, HPE, IBM
Languages - Access the campaign assets on Partner Marketing Central English: available by November 20, 2017
Assets - At-a-glance, Datasheets, Infographic, customer email journey, social media copy, TechWise promo video
