Automate & Orchestrate

Turbo-charge your data projects

Secret sauceAutomation & orchestration provides the secret sauce for taking data projects into production with less cost and risk. It’s possible to deliver the majority of your core IT infrastructure through a single management tool with point-and-click simplicity. You can deploy applications to on-premise data centres, or private clouds and public clouds too.Deploy, adapt and scale from a single management paneA data centre 'stack' of network, compute, storage and virtualisation includes many management points. These are operated using different management tools, and often by different teams.The result is that as much as 62% of your administrative costs go to deployment, monitoring, updating and troubleshooting – not to activities that add new value to your business.

Analysis proves that running Big Data and SAP HANA on Cisco UCS yields huge productivity and efficiency gains for businesses.

– Read IDC's report on UCS for SAP HANA
– Read IDC's report on UCS for Big Data

Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) is a family of converged and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions that includes platforms optimised for SAP HANA, Big Data, and analytic workloads.Turn your data growth into instant insights

With server hardware abstracted and modelled in software, UCS-managed servers can be deployed in minutes instead of days. Based on systems live at 100+ customers, UCS delivers an 84% reduction in provisioning times. As an example, UCS for Big Data is managed with Cisco UCS Director (UCSD) Express, which delivers a dramatic reduction in the number of different management points. It provides a self-service portal for rolling out new workloads quickly – irrespective of whether you're provisioning on physical or virtual (hypervisor) infrastructure.More on Cisco UCS Director Express for Big Data