Cisco Cisco UCS Director 4.0 Dépliant
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Today, the vast majority of IT administrative expenditures are for maintenance. As
much as 77 percent of your administrative costs go to deployment, monitoring,
updating, and troubleshooting—not to activities that add new value to your business.
That’s because so many IT processes are manual, tedious, and error prone.
Wouldn’t you prefer to spend your limited funding on strategic business initiatives
that can propel your business forward and make your IT department a strategic part
of your company?
much as 77 percent of your administrative costs go to deployment, monitoring,
updating, and troubleshooting—not to activities that add new value to your business.
That’s because so many IT processes are manual, tedious, and error prone.
Wouldn’t you prefer to spend your limited funding on strategic business initiatives
that can propel your business forward and make your IT department a strategic part
of your company?
International Data Corporation (IDC) confirms that converged infrastructure is
changing part of the equation by making it easy to purchase an integrated set of
components to support your applications. IDC estimates that half of today’s data
center sales are converged infrastructure, with FlexPod from Cisco and NetApp the
market leader.
changing part of the equation by making it easy to purchase an integrated set of
components to support your applications. IDC estimates that half of today’s data
center sales are converged infrastructure, with FlexPod from Cisco and NetApp the
market leader.
Cisco UCS Director takes the next step and automates your IT processes to put
these resources to work. The result: faster time to revenue, improved consistency
and compliance, easier alignment between IT and the business, and optimized
resource and personnel utilization.
these resources to work. The result: faster time to revenue, improved consistency
and compliance, easier alignment between IT and the business, and optimized
resource and personnel utilization.
Introducing Cisco UCS Director
Cisco UCS Director automates IT processes—not just any processes, the ones that
you design. It provides a single point from which you can automate and orchestrate
your IT infrastructure, including computing, networking, and storage, with physical
and virtual resources treated equally. This holistic management helps makes your
processes consistent and reliable. Cisco UCS Director supports multitenancy,
helping you keep internal clients separate for better security and for resource
you design. It provides a single point from which you can automate and orchestrate
your IT infrastructure, including computing, networking, and storage, with physical
and virtual resources treated equally. This holistic management helps makes your
processes consistent and reliable. Cisco UCS Director supports multitenancy,
helping you keep internal clients separate for better security and for resource
Solution Brief
January 2014
Highlights
Introducing Cisco UCS Director
• Deliver IT infrastructure as a service
through a single interface with point-
and-click simplicity. Cisco UCS®
Director provides:
• Single-pane management
• Policy-based provisioning
• End-to-end process automation
• Lifecycle management
Faster Time to Revenue
• Reduce time to value with
comprehensive, automated, policy-
based workflows.
Improved Consistency and
Compliance
• Design workflows that are consistent
and repeatable, increasing
compliance. Use auditing tools to
eliminate configuration drift.
Better Alignment Between IT and the
Business
• Help your clients deliver on last-
minute initiatives without having to use
outside IT resources. Free your staff
to build client relationships and focus
on business-critical initiatives
Increased Collaboration
• Get your subject-matter experts and
administrators talking. Increased
collaboration yields better end-to-end
architectures and fewer errors that
can cause downtime.