Cisco’s Unified Computing Systems brings new possibilities

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SAN JOSE, Calif. – Sept. 1, 2009 – Cisco today announced that Tutor Perini Corp., a leading civil and building construction company, has deployed the Cisco® Unified Computing System in its new data center, which serves several business entities. Tutor Perini will consolidate five existing data centers into one newly built facility. All applications and data will be migrated to the Cisco Unified Computing System platform, which unites network, computational, storage access and virtualization into a single cohesive system. The consolidation project was motivated by the need to reduce operating costs, maximize virtualization, optimize resources and simplify management. In addition, the company is expanding its existing thin-client environment.

The Unified Computing System implementation at Tutor Perini marks the first deployment of Cisco’ s new computing platform, which was announced in March and began shipping this summer.

 

Facts:

 

• At Tutor Perini, the Cisco Unified Computing System is configured with four chassis, 22 server blades, and two Cisco 6120 Fabric Interconnects. The system connects to 83 terabytes of data in an Ethernet environment.
• The standards-based Cisco Unified Computing System integrates with an existing environment of Cisco routers and switches, third-party equipment, and VMware virtualization technology, as well as the company’s thin-client infrastructure.
• Tutor Perini has moved three of five data centers to the new data center, using VMWare technology to move servers, virtual machines and data over the network to the new site.
• With the Cisco Unified Computing System, Tutor Perini will be able to deploy four times as many virtual machines per VMware ESX host as it could in its previous environment, a key factor in helping the company to achieve its cost reduction goals.
• To account for future growth in the next three years after the migration, Tutor Perini has built in capacity to allow for 30 percent growth over the next three years. The company can add more blades as needed to the Cisco Unified Computing System, which can accommodate up to 40 chassis within a single management entity.

 

Technology and Business Benefits

• Cost Savings include:
  • Equipment consolidation: Tutor Perini’s new Cisco Unified Computing System consists of four chassis with integrated switching and integrated management, with the ability to scale to 40 chassis in a single system. The consolidation project reduced the hardware footprint by 60 percent; two data center rows now support up to 7,500 users.
  • Increased server utilization: With the Cisco Unified Computing System, Tutor Perini’s IT department anticipates it will now be able to support four times as many virtual machines per VMware ESX host than before, and expects to achieve 90 percent CPU utilization.
  • Simplified cable management: Using a Unified Fabric design, and integrated network and storage access, Cisco’s Unified Computing System requires fewer cables to be purchased and managed than other solutions. Reducing the number of cables not only provides cost savings, but also provides improved air flow for greater power and cooling efficiency.

It’s great to see this article about an organization benefiting from Cisco’s Unified Computing System, it illustrates interesting results both in terms of the hardware and software. That we can deploy new infrastructure dynamically in line with the business need transforms not only the technical but the operational possibilities, having extra capacity for that share issue deal on your web trading system, to provision new infrastructure for that new business line, to move capacity around the infrastructure.

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