Cisco Cisco Nexus 5010 Switch Guida Informativa
Customer Success Stories
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NetApp
“Of all the data center switches we evaluated, the Cisco Nexus 5000 Switch best matched the 300 requirements we
identified for application virtualization, including Layer 2 access support, an enhanced 10 Gigabit Ethernet backbone,
10 Gigabit Ethernet server connectivity, and FCoE [Fibre Channel over Ethernet] support.”
Kamal Vayas, Team Lead, Data Center Services, NetApp
NetApp - Storage Manufacturer Virtualizes Data Center Applications
St. Joseph Health System
“With any other design, we would have spent US$1.3 million for copper cabling, overhead racks, and patch panels.
With the Cisco Nexus family, cabling cost US$190,000, an 85 percent savings. The money we saved paid for the
Cisco Nexus equipment implementation.”
Mike Shandraw, Enterprise Data Center Manager, St. Joseph Health System
Healthcare Provider Saved $1 Million on Data Center
University of Arizona
“By deploying the Cisco Nexus 5010 Switch top of rack, we have reduced the homerun cable count from an average
of 80 per rack to two, and intra-rack cable count from an average of four per server to two. Not having to deal with
that tangled web of cabling is dramatically reducing manpower requirements.”
Derek Masseth, Senior Director for Infrastructure Services, University of Arizona
University Deploys Unified Fabric in Data Center
Alibaba
“We are registering better user feedback regarding the response times of our web applications. The Cisco Nexus
5000 and 2000 Series switches have made this possible with [their] low latency, lossless fabric, and IEEE network
congestion management tools.”
Zhou Ming, Technical Manager, alimama.com
Cisco Nexus Family helps Alibaba Group Open the Doors to Future Riches
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
“Virtualizing the access row switches reduces the number of switches we need to support. We can quickly add just
the right number of network ports with Cisco Nexus 2148 Fabric Extenders instead of buying a whole new switch.”
Steve Devine, Network Engineer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Research Laboratory Builds World-Class Data Center
Purdue University
“A mechanical-engineering faculty member reported that her application performed 60 percent faster after it was
moved to the new cluster. [The new cluster consists of 40 server racks, each connected over lossless 10 Gigabit
Ethernet to a Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch at the top of the rack. The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches connect
to dual Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches at the core, and also to Network File System (NFS)-mounted storage.]
The gain is attributable to the increased network bandwidth, because the difference in processing power in the new
cluster is negligible.”
John Campbell, Associate Vice President of the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, Purdue University
University Builds High-Performance Computing Cluster