Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

November 16, 2023

DATA CENTER

On-Premises or Public Cloud? Unlocking the Value of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

5 min read

Intersect360 Research published a detailed analysis comparing a VDI 2,500 desktop deployment on a public cloud to a Cisco compute-based on-premises deployment. The result was the Cisco deployment saved the customer $2 million over three years.

November 3, 2021

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Do more today, save money tomorrow with UCS X-Series

4 min read

I’ve been working on Cisco UCS TCO/ROI for almost 12 years. The results have remained remarkably consistent, and I’d like to share what I’ve learned over the last decade plus.

February 9, 2021

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Choosing to modernize your infrastructure isn’t just about TCO

3 min read

Modernizing is about doing things differently in how you operate, manage, and consume your IT infrastructure. This blog discusses why you should modernize to meet your performance, flexibility, and agility business goals.

March 6, 2018

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Cisco UCS – Helping You Laugh All the Way to the Bank

1 min read

How much could you save by switching to Cisco UCS? Our Public TCO Tool can give you guidance.

April 17, 2017

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Cisco HyperFlex vs. Public Cloud

5 min read

Late last year, I compared Cisco’s S3260 Storage Server to Amazon’s S3 service. The results shocked a lot of people and spurred a lot comments on the blog.

November 22, 2016

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AWS or Private Cloud or both, what’s your strategy?

7 min read

Well we just opened up a hornet’s nest didn’t we?! Our recent announcement of the new Cisco UCS S-Series Storage Server definitely caused a stir in the industry. We launched into the emerging scale out storage market with a broad ecosystem of solution partners backed by amazing customers like Cirrity and Green Cloud who use […]

November 1, 2016

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Understanding the Cost Premium of Public Cloud for Active Data

2 min read

If you’ve read any of my past blogs, you’ll know I focus a lot on the economic impact of Cisco UCS. Today I’m comparing the TCO of hosting data intensive workloads on-prem vs. in the public cloud. What started out as a 2RU rackmount consolidation discussion (more on that next week) turned into a public cloud […]

February 12, 2016

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The Business Value of Cisco Big Data Solutions

1 min read

Since it’s inception five years ago Cisco’s Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) offerings have consistently driven positive technical and business value for our customers at many levels, some examples: • Cisco UCS regularly delivers top-level performance as showcased via our leading benchmarking results. • In their datacenters our customers have recognized material gains in operational […]

September 23, 2015

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Cisco and Platfora Delivering on the Promise of Enterprise Scale Analytics

2 min read

Analytics will continue to take center stage as the volume of data generated by embedded systems increases and vast pools of structured and unstructured data within and outside the enterprise are analyzed.  — Gartner Big Data will continue to be important, but it’s critical to first understand how businesses can quickly gather relevant insights from […]