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Supporting Student Notes:

Years ago, RISC and UNIX may have been the right platform to run your business, but now, companies are experiencing
difficulties with these platforms. RISC and UNIX simply are not able to meet business flexibility and agility requirements.
And CIOs realize this. By 2017, Linux will be among the most popular server operating systems in the world.

Cisco recognizes that Linux is a new industry standard. The x86 architecture has matured into the de facto industry
standard, fostering a rich application, operating system, server, and partner ecosystem. The majority of enterprises are
adopting Intel® Xeon® processors in all aspects of enterprise computing, taking advantage of the improved economics
and flexibility of industry-standard architectures.

To keep up with ever-growing business demands, your customers need to modernize to Cisco UCS running Red Hat
software, delivered by industry leaders: Cisco in integrated infrastructure, Red Hat in Open Source. Through this
partnership between Red Hat and Cisco, customers have access to the largest open partner ecosystem, a collaborative
support model, and a number of other benefits:

• Improved time to market with dynamic development and delivery capabilities

• Increased business agility with optimized automation

• Improved efficiency and cost control with the capability to expand and contract resources

• Investment protection with an open architecture

• Application portability across private, public, and hybrid clouds

• Reduced deployment times (up to 90 percent faster)