It’s been simply over 14 months since we launched the Cisco UCS X-Sequence to nice fanfare and acclaim. Appropriately sufficient, the X-Sequence unveiling ceremony was a part of a “Way forward for Cloud” occasion as it’s computing platform that I imagine will redefine hybrid cloud infrastructure for the following decade.
The client adoption tendencies for the X-Sequence proves that our optimism was well-placed. Listed below are a couple of knowledge factors.
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- The X-Sequence is the fastest-ramping* UCS product ever and is even gaining traction with prospects who’ve by no means bought a UCS product earlier than. Our objective was to get to “100 in 100,” as in securing the primary 100 prospects inside the first 100 days of availability. We ended up blowing previous that quantity simply.
- We now have had greater than 1500 prospects consider the X-Sequence by conferences, demos, and trials. Nearly half of these evaluations have was purchases thus far with many extra to come back.
- And, in accordance with the most recent knowledge from IDC**, the wholesome buyer demand for the X-Sequence is a key think about Cisco reaching 52.8 p.c income marketshare of the worldwide x86 blade server market.
The outcomes might communicate for themselves, however I feel it’s vital to grasp why there was such broad and powerful attraction for the X-Sequence amongst prospects world wide. I’ll level to a few causes:
Innovation: The X-Sequence powered by Cisco Intersight was purpose-built by foundational improvements for remodeling on-prem compute deployments for hybrid cloud working fashions. One of the modern points of the X-Sequence is its versatility as demonstrated by the evolutionary points of the X-Cloth and its modular system design that blurs the road between rack and blade server type elements. This versatility additionally permits us to develop a large variety of options with our ecosystem companions. Thus far we have now delivered greater than 20 Cisco Validated Designs for a lot of use instances together with converged & hyperconverged infrastructure, server & desktop virtualization, cloud native providers, and automation to call a couple of. However we have now not compromise efficiency for versatility demonstrated by the truth that the X-Sequence is the primary modular computing platform to supply 100G connectivity end-to-end per compute node and 48 million IOPs in a single chassis.
Operational Simplicity: One other hallmark of the X-Sequence is that it’s easy to function with the tight coupling with Intersight being one vital motive for this. However the X-Sequence itself was designed as a typical and open system in order that prospects can deploy, handle, and automate their hybrid cloud infrastructure quicker and with much less danger to run most of conventional and fashionable workload. A fantastic instance of this comes from one in every of our prospects, a not-for-profit healthcare system serving 25 counties, who was seeking to simplify its IT operations, principally to chop prices. This buyer had been spending greater than $80K per 30 days on its leased converged infrastructure providers. Our account staff confirmed the client how they will deploy a extra superior converged infrastructure know-how with an X-Sequence enabled converged infrastructure whereas lowering their complete working complexity and prices by utilizing Intersight.
Future-Readiness: As a lot as I’d love the ability, I do not need the flexibility to foretell the longer term with any diploma of accuracy. No one does. That’s what the “X” within the X-Sequence was designed to resolve. The standard computing purchase-and-deploy mannequin was to make use of a system for a couple of years after which discard it as new applied sciences and workloads required an improve. This mannequin may need been good for distributors, nevertheless it was not perfect for patrons and definitely not for sustainability as servers are a significant contributor to e-waste annually. We wished to interrupt this cycle with the X-Sequence by making it adaptable and field-upgradeable as new CPUs, GPUs, connectivity choices, storage and bodily interfaces emerge. In flip, this permits the X-Sequence to assist not solely at present’s workloads but in addition extra processing and storage-intensive workloads that prospects may have sooner or later – e.g., AI-enhanced Large Knowledge and software-defined storage.
This potential to assist present and future workloads throughout cloud and on-prem environments was the first motive we gained a deal at a significant college within the Midwest. This buyer noticed the worth of modernizing its hybrid cloud operations with future-proofed CPU and GPU acceleration modules and ease-of-management, which had been key promoting factors for its “lean IT” initiative. That is enabling the client to modernize its purposes by assist for digital workloads and next-gen databases.
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