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Brochure Cisco Nexus Family Delivers Data Center Transformation Data Center-Class Family of Switches Built to Help Customers Evolve Their Data Centers What You Will Learn As organizations increasingly rely on IT to help enable, and even change, their business strategies, they need their IT infrastructure to be more powerful, agile, and efficient. Today’s enterprises require continual system availability, demand ubiquitous access, and expect rapid and fluid response to their ever-changing business needs. As part of ® ™ the Cisco Data Center 3.0 vision, Cisco developed the Cisco Nexus Family of data center-class switches to meet these business challenges and take advantage of emerging opportunities in a way that protects their current infrastructure investment and allows them to incrementally incorporate new capabilities in a granular, cost-effective manner. Introduction Figure 1. Cisco Nexus Family of Data Center Switches The imperative for data center transformation is really a need for sustainability. Companies continue to invest in IT and to make their core functions more IT dependent because they understand that the investment will yield some net benefit to the business, such as improved customer service, increased service velocity, or reduced costs. However, the typical approach to building data center infrastructure is becoming a limiting factor because it yields low asset utilization, poor energy inefficiency, and increasing complexity. Simply, companies are running out of space, power and cooling capacity, budget, and qualified staff. Cisco believes the best approach to building a scalable and sustainable data center strategy is to consolidate and virtualize data center server, storage, and network resources to increase asset, energy, and budget efficiency. At the same time, it is important to implement automation tools to help ensure the scalability and productivity of operations teams. This virtualized data center then provides companies an agile resource that can quickly respond to changing business needs while reducing overall infrastructure. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 1 of 6

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Brochure To help customers implement this vision, Cisco developed the Data Center 3.0 as a framework for building, implementing, and operating a virtualized, next-generation data center. With Cisco Data Center 3.0, Cisco offers products, services, and an ecosystem of development and solution partners, financing, and programs that comprise a holistic data center solution, helping you adapt your current data center to meet future business challenges. To deliver on the Cisco Data Center 3.0 vision, Cisco developed the Cisco Nexus Family of data center-class switches (Figure 1). The Cisco Nexus...

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Brochure Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch Even with its svelte rack switch form factor, the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series of switches offers numerous innovations. The low-latency, low-cost, 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch was first to market with support for standards-based IEEE Data Center Bridging (DCB), which improves the reliability and scalability of Ethernet for data center purposes. The switch was also the first to deliver Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), which allows storage traffic to be reliably carried over an Ethernet infrastructure. These features are prime examples of Cisco's holistic...

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Brochure Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch The Cisco Nexus 1000V is unique among the Cisco switching portfolio because it is implemented completely in software: it does not need a hardware component to operate. The switch is part of the Cisco VN-Link portfolio of virtual machine-aware network and storage services. The Cisco Nexus 1000V is designed to integrate with the VMware ESX Hypervisor and is a direct replacement for VMware’s own vSwitch virtual switch. The Cisco Nexus 1000V allows network services to be defined and managed at the virtual machine level. Network policy can be defined with...

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Brochure ● Optimized service levels: IT can optimize business service levels by providing secure, accelerated access to data center-hosted applications and information from anywhere, at any time, across the organization. Why Cisco? ● Most comprehensive solution: The Cisco Nexus Family does not just offer world-class data center hardware and software. As part of a holistic approach, Cisco Nexus 7000, 5000, 2000, and 1000 Series ™ solutions also include Cisco Advanced Services, Cisco Capital , the Cisco Data Center Assurance Program (DCAP), and an outstanding ecosystem of development and...

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