Cisco Cisco Application Extension Platform for SRE White Paper

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As shown in Figure 1, there is a clear savings of $87,000 in a 10-branch scenario over three years.

These savings indicate that the AXP basically pays for itself during the three-year lifecycle as

compared to assumed TCO of a system of independent appliances.

The second-order benefits of utilizing the technology in the AXP include the possibility of running

multiple applications on a virtualized OS. Instead of running several servers at low utilization, you

can run one AXP blade at optimum capacity. This enables money savings as well as fewer

administrating staff.

The high level of compartmentalization and partitioning helps ensure that even if there is a sharing

of resources across multiple environments—for example, if one application were to stop

operating—there is no risk of it affecting the performance of other applications running on the

same blade.

Finally, this model is conservative—it does not account for the corporate gains based on benefits

such as value to the business of higher availability, increased employee productivity caused by low

downtime, increased agility, faster time to market, and improved application performance in

addition to a host of smaller savings.

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