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UCS Competitive Assets

Title Date Key Headline URL

Cisco UCS vs. HP for Q2 10 A commissioned report from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) http://www.cisco.com/en/US/so
energy and management Q2 11 that studies how Cisco UCS's management capabilities and Unified lutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/n
Computing System are key, to effective and efficient server power s224/ns944/ema_cisco_data_cent
Cisco UCS - A Real Q4 10 savings and increased data center capacity compared to HP ermgmt0610.PDF
World TCO Analysis BladeSystem.
Q1 11
UCS VDI: Scaling Q1 11 EMA analyzed the business value realized by a large number of Cisco http://www.cisco.com/en/US/so
Without Sacrifice Q2 11 customers and found that Cisco customers that choose to invest in UCS lutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/n
stand an excellent chance of extracting significant, quantifiable s224/ns944/cisco_ucs_areal_worl
VDI Perfromance business value within a relatively short period of time while increasing d_tco_analysis.pdf
Comparison UCS B250 overall responsiveness, performance, business agility and availability
M2 vs. HP BL460C G7 of critical business applications.

UCS B250 M2 Deploy Partner with Intel, Citrix and NetApp; Organizations deploying a http://www.cisco.com/en/US/so
47% Faster vs. HP desktop virtualization solution benefit by using servers that support lutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/n
BL460C G7 many users and properly scale with additional servers. A single Cisco s224/ns944/ucs_vdi_scaling_with
UCS B250 M2 Deploy UCS B250 M2 Extended Memory Blade Server running Citrix out_sacrifice.pdf
47% Faster vs. HP XenDesktop® 4 with Citrix XenServer 5.6 supported 112 MS Win 7
BL460C G7 - VIDEO virtual desktops and scaled perfectly, without sacrificing
performance, supporting 784 virtual desktops when adding six more
blades as measured by Login VSI Beta3 parameters.

Using LoginVSI Beta3 benchmark with Citrix XenDesktop 4 and http://www.cisco.com/en/US/so
XenServer 5.6 on NetApp storage, Cisco Unified Computing System lutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/n
B250 M2 supported 112 virtual desktops with 2GB memory vs. 93 for s224/ns944/Vdi_Performance_Co
the HP BL460c G7. The UCS B250 M2 delivered 20.4% more virtual mparision.pdf
desktops per blade than the HP solution.

Head to Head, Cisco UCS with UCS Manager deploys blades 47% faster http://www.cisco.com/en/US/so
that HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (and FlexFabric), with 67% lutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/n
fewer steps. s224/ns944/ucs_vs_hp_deployme
nt.pdf

VIDEO: Head to Head, Cisco UCS with UCS Manager deploys blades http://www.youtube.com/watch?
47% faster that HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (and v=nijWlNzSgCQ
FlexFabric), with 67% fewer