As you look at your upcoming Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, or SQL Server projects keep in mind Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) Smart Play program. The program offers attractive pricing on select Cisco UCS blade and rack server bundles. Our Cisco UCS servers provide an optimal I.T. platform for these key Microsoft workloads helping you to deliver exceptional performance & virtual machine densities, as well as scalability to your organization. Read More »

Tags: C-Series, Cisco, Exchange 2010, Hyper-V, Microsoft, Microsoft Sharepoint, Microsoft SQL Server, UCS

Recently while speaking with a group of Cisco Systems Engineers about their respective Microsoft Exchange 2010 migrations the group commented on the range of engagement sizes – in terms of individual mailboxes supported – that they had implemented during the past year or so.  What we learned during this discussion is the extreme scalable nature of UCS when it comes to Exchange as engagements of up to 250,000 mailboxes were successfully handled. Additionally UCS’s virtualization capabilities – with either Hyper-V or VMware -- were seen adding to the efficiency of these larger scale engagements. 

If you would like to learn more about UCS and Exchange, please register to listen to our upcoming August 1st webinar – Taking the Sting out of Exchange 2010 Migrations.  Also, please visit www.cisco.com/go/microsoft to learn more on Cisco UCS and how it is an optimal server platform for your Microsoft workloads.

Tags: Cisco, Exchange 2010, Hyper-V, Microsoft, migration, UCS, VMware

I am happy to share that Cisco is a key sponsor for the Microsoft Tech Ed North America 2011 event in Atlanta next week.  At TechEd, we will be showcasing our data center business advantage solutions and showing how you can maximize your investments in leading Microsoft applications such as Exchange, SharePoint, and SQL Server.

With Cisco UCS, we are not just making servers, we are making server history.

It is well known that Cisco UCS adoption has been fantastic with over 5400 customers, with a large number of customers efficiently and fearlessly running their mission critical Microsoft applications on UCS. These customer deployments are backed by series of CVDs (Cisco Validated Designs) that serve as key enablers to successful deployments.

Any Announcements?

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Tags: Cisco, Cisco UCS, Cisco Validated Design, CiscoUCS, CVD, Exchange 2010, Hyper-V, Microsoft, private cloud, Sharepoint 2010, vdi

Guest Post by Rex Backman (Global Marketing Manager, Microsoft Solutions at Cisco)

Please join us for a four-part webcast series hosted by Cisco. During this webinar series Cisco and Microsoft experts will show you how to architect, deploy, and manage Microsoft applications on the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) platform. Industry experts will also share their experiences on implementing Microsoft SQL Server, SharePoint, Exchange, and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) offerings. Throughout the series, we will discuss relevant architectural, technical, and operational benefits and best practices. This information will be available to you via Cisco Validated Design (CVD) reference architectures.

The first chapter kicks on May 10^th – so please visit www.cisco.com/go/semreg/urls/44768/1 for registration information.

Here are the details of what will be covered in each webcast.

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Tags: Cisco, Cisco CVD, CiscoUCS, cloud, Exchange 2010, Microsoft, Sharepoint, SQl Server 2008, vdi

With an ever growing mobile and distributed workforce, application developers are being tasked to develop applications that can also be remotely accessed by this global workforce. Application developers, with a very basic understanding of networking, assume the network has no boundaries and applications perform optimally regardless of the mode of access. At the same time, cloud computing is enabling applications to be consolidated into centralized and virtualized data centers, further increasing the distance from where the applications are being accessed. Network architects are also being challenged with current network designs for this application deployment and delivery model. The available bandwidth is being taxed as the ever growing applications portfolio competes for network resources to provide a satisfying user experience across the network without boundaries. This application delivery model also demands capabilities for better visibility and control, WAN optimization, and agility of the network to rapidly deploy and manage enterprise applications.

The Cisco Application Velocity solution addresses all the challenges associated with the delivery and consumption of enterprise applications over the network without boundaries. It is one of the five services in Cisco’s Borderless Network Architecture and is composed of innovative Cisco technologies that help IT professionals meet or exceed business SLAs, maximize user experience, optimize resource utilization, and increase reliability and user expectations.

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Tags: ACE, Cisco, Cisco ISR G2 Services-Ready Engine, Cisco Nexus, Cisco UCS, Cisco WAAS, cloud, Exchange 2010, NBAR, netflow, Oracle E-Business Suite, PfR, QoS, Sharepoint, SQL Server, UCS Express, virtualization, VMware, waas, WAAS Express