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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
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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.
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