Provides an overview of Cisco's data center fabric vision, evolution, momentum and benefits.

1. Cisco Data Center Business Advantage Cisco Data Center FabricVision. Evolution. Innovations Shashi Kiran Director, Data Center/Virtualization, CMO

2. New Data Center DemandsImpact of Virtualization and Cloud Dynamic response Anything-as-a-Service VM Mobility Heterogeneous Workloads for ANY APPLICATION Optimize resource allocation across ANY LOCATION Respond in real-time atANY SCALE © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

3. Traditional IT Silos Network Compute Application Services Storage Inefficient Resource Utilization Operationally Complex—Higher TCO Promotes Human Silos

4. Cisco’s Approach: Data Center Fabric Unified Fabric Unified Network Services Unified Computing

5. Cisco Data Center Fabric Vision Flexible, High-performance, Shared Infrastructure Tightly Integrated Network, Storage, Compute and Application Services Cisco Life cycle Services and Innovations that facilitate “enter anywhere, grow anywhere” Open Integrated Flexible Scalable Resilient Secure

7. Context-aware policies

8. Defense-in-depth

9. Standards-based

10. Published API

12. Stateless Computing

13. Integrated OAM

14. Unified Compute, Network storage & Application Services

15. Secure

17. 15,000 1GbE ports

18. 10,000+ 10GbE ports

19. 320 blades/system

20. 1000+ VM/system

21. Low latency

22. Customizable elastic infrastructure

23. Auto provisioning

24. Investment protectionFabric Characteristics

26. Service profiles

27. NX-OS Open API

28. UCS B-series

29. UCS C-series

30. Adapter FEX

31. Nexus 1000V

32. VM-FEX

34. MDSEvolutionary Innovations Offering Investment Protection 2011 2008

36. Power consumption down 38%

37. 50% reduction in servers

39. Consolidated multiple SANs

40. Reduced cabling 30-60%

41. 30% improvement in app. performance

42. Server density by 300%40+ ISVs