Small and medium-sized businesses everywhere are reporting symptoms of “server sprawl.” This epidemic is characterized by an overabundance of underutilized servers and storage systems, often caused by running one application per server to protect against potential machine crashes. FlexPod Express with VMware is the cure—saving you money, energy, time, and … did we say money?

1. THE CURE FOR SERVER SPR AWL
Small and medium-sized businesses everywhere are reporting symptoms of “server sprawl.” This epidemic
is characterized by an overabundance of underutilized servers and storage systems, often caused by
running one application per server to protect against potential machine crashes. FlexPod®
Express with
VMware is the cure—saving you money, energy, time, and … did we say money?
A C I S C O A N D N E TA PP
I N FR A ST R U C T U R E S O LU T I O N
FO R S M A L L A N D M ED I U M - S IZED B U S I N ES S ES
CURE “THE SPR AWL”
symptom
Wasting money on too many servers
symptom
Wasting money and energy powering
unused server and storage capacity
symptom
Wasting time and money maintaining
servers and storage
cure
FlexPod Express consolidates multiple physical
servers and storage systems onto a single,
powerful, shared platform.
cure
FlexPod Express reduces the energy required to
power and cool physical server and storage systems.
cure
FlexPod Express enables overworked IT staff to
spend less time maintaining servers and storage
systems, and more time on strategic projects.
Result: Cut your server and storage-related costs by 50% when
you consolidate your resources through virtualization.
Result: Recoup your initial investment in two years or less—
based on energy savings alone.
Result: Convert hours spent on manual maintenance into time
spent purely on business growth.
*AC C ORDIN G TO DATA M AT IO N
*AC C ORDIN G TO E NERGYSTA R
*AC C ORDIN G TO E N T ERPRISE F E AT URES
Fact: Many servers and storage systems are utilized
less than 20%.
Fact: Energy costs for physical servers and storage
systems are up to 40% higher than virtualized
solutions.
Fact: Physical servers and storage systems can
take 3x longer to deploy than virtual solutions
Call your Cisco partner to discover how FlexPod Express with VMware can cure your costly server
sprawl issues by consolidating multiple servers and storage systems onto powerful Cisco UCS™
Servers and switches, NetApp®
FAS storage, and VMware virtualization software.
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