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Application Solutions
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Accelerate and Scale Oracle PeopleSoft Deployments with Cisco UCS (Solution Brief) (PDF - 2 MB)
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Cisco Common Platform Architecture for Big Data (PDF - 150 KB)
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Cisco FlexPod IP Shared Storage Solution for Small and Medium-Size Businesses (PDF - 550 KB)
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Cisco Solution for Citrix VDI-in-a-Box (PDF - 220 KB)
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Cisco Solution for EMC VSPEX for Deployment of Microsoft SharePoint 2013 on Microsoft Fast Track 3.0 New!
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Cisco Solution for EMC VSPEX: Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track 3.0 Small Implementation M100 (Solution Brief) (PDF - 740 KB)
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Cisco UCS and EMC® VNX™ 5300 with Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track 2.0
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Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers and Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (PDF - 870 KB)
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Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers for Microsoft Exchange 2010 (PDF - 300 KB)
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Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers for Microsoft SQL Server and Consolidation (PDF - 150 KB)
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Cisco UCS C210 M2 2500 Mailbox Resiliency Microsoft Exchange 2010 Storage Solution
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Cisco UCS for MS Exchange 2010 Using EMC Unified Storage and MS Hyper-V (PDF - 2 MB)
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Cisco UCS Using Open Source Stack (PDF - 1 MB)
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Cisco Unified Computing System with Microsoft Hyper-V Recommended Practices (PDF - 500 KB) New!
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Cisco VSPEX Server Virtualization Solution for Small and Medium-Size Businesses (PDF - 320 KB)
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Enterprise Application Solutions with Cisco UCS Servers (PDF - 3 MB)
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FlexPod for Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Design Guide
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Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 on Cisco Unified Computing System (PDF - 1 MB)
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ODIN Performance Assessment Report (PDF - 5 MB)
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Oracle PeopleSoft Payroll 9.0 for North America on Cisco Unified Computing System
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Oracle WebLogic Using Cisco Unified Computing System (PDF - 6 MB)
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Oracles JD Edwards EnterpriseOne with Oracle Virtual Machine on the Cisco Unified Computing System
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Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne with Microsoft SQL Server and Windows 2008 on the Cisco Unified Computing System
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Provisioning Oracle Fusion Applications on the Cisco Unified Computing System
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SAP Applications with Sybase ASE on Cisco UCS with NetApp Storage
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SAP Business Suite Applications - Scalable Performance and Capacity with Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Servers (PDF - 660 KB)
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Virtualized SAP: Optimize Performance with Cisco Data Center VM-FEX and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (PDF - 770 KB)
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Accelerate and Scale Oracle PeopleSoft Deployments with Cisco UCS (Solution Brief) (PDF - 2 MB)
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Big Data
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Cisco and Greenplum Partner to Deliver High-Performance Hadoop Reference Configurations (PDF - 3 MB)
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Cisco UCS with MapR: Delivering Advanced Performance for Hadoop Workloads (PDF - 760 KB)
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Cisco UCS with ParAccel Analytic Platform Solution: Deliver Powerful Analytics to Transform Business (PDF - 550 KB)
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Cisco UCS with StackIQ Solution: Deliver Big Infrastructure for Big Data
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Cisco UCS with the Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop Software (PDF - 1 MB)
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Cloudera Hadoop Infrastructure with Cisco UCS Servers and Cisco Nexus Switches (PDF - 1 MB)
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Deploy Simple, Fast and Flexible Transactional Key-Value Storage with Cisco UCS Servers and the Oracle NoSQL Database (PDF - 910 KB)
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The Critical Role of the Network in Big Data Applications (PDF - 350 KB)
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Cisco and Greenplum Partner to Deliver High-Performance Hadoop Reference Configurations (PDF - 3 MB)
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Business Advantage Delivered
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Application Solutions with Cisco UCS
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Business Advantage Delivered: Cisco UCS (PDF - 6 MB)
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Cisco UCS: A Real-World TCO Analysis (PDF - 2 MB)
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Data Center Capacity Planning and Refresh--Cisco UCS Business Advantage Delivered (PDF - 840 KB)
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Data Center Management Cisco UCS Business Advantage Delivered (PDF - 3 MB)
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Gartner: Fabric-Based Infrastructure Enablers and Inhibitors Through the Lens of User Experiences
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IT Agility Delivered: Cisco Unified Computing System (PDF - 8 MB)
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Total Economic Impact of Cisco UCS; by Forrester Consulting (PDF - 790 KB)
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Application Solutions with Cisco UCS
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Cloud
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Collaboration
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Database
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Boost Database Performance with the Cisco UCS Storage Accelerator (PDF - 920 KB)
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Cisco Reference Configurations for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse 4.0 with EMC VNX5500 Series Storage Systems (PDF - 2 MB)
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Cisco Reference Configurations for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Fast Track Data Warehouse 3.0 with EMC VNX5300 Series Storage Systems (PDF - 2 MB)
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Data Warehouse Scalability Using Cisco Unified Computing System and Oracle Real Application Cluster With EMC VNX Storage (PDF - 1 MB)
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Data Warehouse Scalability with Cisco Unified Computing System and Oracle Real Application Cluster with EMC CLARiiON® Storage
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Deploying Oracle Real Application Clusters on the Cisco Unified Computing System with EMC CLARiiON Storage
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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Failover Cluster on Bare-Metal Microsoft Windows 2008 with Cisco UCS iSCSI-Based Storage Access: Deployment Guide
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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Failover Cluster on Cisco UCS with iSCSI-Based Storage Access Deployment Guide (PDF - 6 MB)
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Migrating a Mission Critical 40 TB Oracle E-Business Suite from HP Superdomes to Cisco Unified Computing System
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OLTP Reference Config. Guidelines for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 on Cisco UCS C-Series Servers (PDF - 1 MB)
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Oracle E-Business Suite R12 on Cisco UCS with EMC VNX 5500
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SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance on the Cisco Unified Computing System
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SQL Server Consolidation on VMware Using Cisco Unified Computing System (PDF - 1 MB)
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SQL Server Consolidation Using Cisco Unified Computing System and Microsoft Hyper-V (PDF - 530 KB)
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Boost Database Performance with the Cisco UCS Storage Accelerator (PDF - 920 KB)
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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
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Cisco Unified Computing System for SAP Landscapes (PDF - 290 KB)
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SAP System Build and Landscape Management Activities (PDF - 2 MB)
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Cisco Unified Computing System for SAP Landscapes (PDF - 290 KB)
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Management
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Achieve Automated, End-to-End Firmware Management with Cisco UCS Manager
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Altiris Preboot Image Driver Injection: Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers Firmware Release 1.4.6
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Altiris Scripted OS Deployment: Microsoft Windows 2008 and Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers Firmware Release 1.4.6
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Altiris Scripted OS Deployment: Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 and Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers Firmware Release 1.4.6
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Cisco UCS Blades Deploy 47% Faster with 67% Fewer Steps vs. HP blades (PDF - 960 KB)
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Cisco UCS Manager Architecture
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Cisco UCS Manager Configuration Common Practices and Quick-Start Guide
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Gartner: Fabric-Based Infrastructure Enablers and Inhibitors Through the Lens of User Experiences
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OS Deployment on Standalone Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers with Microsoft Windows Deployment Services
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Understanding Cisco Unified Computing System Service Profiles (PDF - 710 KB)
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Use Cisco UCS Connectivity Policies to Achieve Strict Administrative Role Delineation
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Achieve Automated, End-to-End Firmware Management with Cisco UCS Manager
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Networking
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Best Practices in Deploying Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches on Cisco UCS B and C Series Cisco UCS Manager Servers
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Cisco Data Center Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) Versus VMware vSwitch
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Cisco Unified Computing System Ethernet Switching Modes
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Cisco VM-FEX Best Practices for VMware ESX Environment Deployment Guide
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Cisco VM-FEX Using VMware ESX Environment Troubleshooting Guide
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Configure Cisco UCS Organization-Aware VLANs to Restrict Network Access
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Deploy Layer 2 Disjoint Networks Upstream in End Host Mode
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Implementing VMware vSphere 5 Auto Deploy on the Cisco Unified Computing System
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Improve Network Throughput by 38 Percent with the Cisco UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card
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Midmarket Architecture: Cisco UCS with the Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch (PDF - 3 MB)
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Networking Performance on RHEL with Cisco UCS 1240 & 1280 Virtual Interface Card (VIC)
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Storage Performance on RHEL with Cisco UCS 1240 & 1280 Virtual Interface Card (VIC)
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Virtualized SAP: Optimize Performance with Cisco Data Center VM-FEX and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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Best Practices in Deploying Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches on Cisco UCS B and C Series Cisco UCS Manager Servers
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Performance
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Cisco Unified Computing System BIOS Settings
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Cisco Unified Computing System Extended Memory Technology Overview
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Enterprise IO Scalability: LSI WarpDrive SLP-300 Using Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Servers (PDF - 480 KB)
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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 on Cisco UCS with iSCSI-Based Storage Access in VMware ESX Virtualization Environment: Performance Study
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Oracle E-Business Suite Performance on Cisco Unified Computing System
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Performance Benchmark Testing of Oracle JD Edwards on Cisco Unified Computing System
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SAP Business Suite Benchmark Performance on Cisco Unified Computing System (PDF - 260 KB) New!
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SQL Server Consolidation Using Cisco Unified Computing System C460 and Microsoft Hyper-V (PDF - 590 KB)
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Using SPEC CPU2006 Benchmark Results to Compare the Compute Performance of Servers (PDF - 490 KB)
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Using VMware VMmark Benchmark Results to Compare the Virtualization Performance of Servers (PDF - 710 KB)
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Cisco Unified Computing System BIOS Settings
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Power
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Cisco UCS B200 M1 Blade Server and HP ProLiant BL460c G6 Server Comparison: Full-Enclosure Power Testing (PDF - 3 MB)
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Cisco Unified Computing System Blade Server Chassis Power Modes (PDF - 660 KB)
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Cisco vs. HP - Server Power Calculator Accuracy Analysis (PDF - 760 KB)
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Data Center Management: The Key Ingredient for Reducing Server Power (PDF - 610 KB)
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Data Center Power and Cooling
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Power Management in the Cisco Unified Computing System: An Integrated Approach
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Cisco UCS B200 M1 Blade Server and HP ProLiant BL460c G6 Server Comparison: Full-Enclosure Power Testing (PDF - 3 MB)
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Server Virtualization/Consolidation
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Cisco Virtualization Solution for EMC VSPEX with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V for 50 Virtual Machines (Solution Brief) (PDF - 250 KB)
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Cisco Virtualization Solution for EMC VSPEX with VMware vSphere 4.1 for V50 Virtual Machines (Solution Brief) (PDF - 310 KB)
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Cisco Virtualization Solutions for EMC VSPEX: VMware V100, V125, V250 (Solution Brief) (PDF - 360 KB)
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Cisco Virtualization Solution for EMC VSPEX with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V for 50 Virtual Machines (Solution Brief) (PDF - 250 KB)
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Storage
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Business Continuity with the Cisco Unified Computing System and EMC Symmetrix VMAX (PDF - 9 MB)
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Cisco UCS C-Series I/O Characterization
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Cisco UCS Using EMC CLARiiON Storage, VMware vSphere 4, and SAP ACC System (PDF - 4 MB)
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Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Storage Connectivity Options and Best Practices with NetApp Storage
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Cisco Unified Computing System and EMC VNXe3300 Unified Storage System (PDF - 560 KB)
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Cisco Unified Computing System and EMC VNX5300 Unified Storage Platform (PDF - 660 KB)
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Cisco VSPEX Solution with Microsoft Fast Track 3.0 Small Implementation
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Design Considerations for High Availability and Scalability in Blade Server Environments
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EMC Information Infrastrcture Solutions (PDF - 2 MB)
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FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud
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Scalability Study for Deploying VMware View on Cisco UCS and EMC Symmetrix V-Max Systems
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Server Consolidation Using Cisco Unified Computing System and EMC CLARiiON Storage (PDF - 2 MB)
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Virtualized SAP Solution Using Cisco Unified Computing System and EMC CLARiiON Storage (PDF - 1 MB)
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Business Continuity with the Cisco Unified Computing System and EMC Symmetrix VMAX (PDF - 9 MB)
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
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Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solution for EMC VSPEX with Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 for 500 Desktops (Solution Brief) (PDF - 300 KB)
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Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solution for EMC VSPEX with VMware View 5.1.2 for 500 and 2000 Desktops (Solution Brief) (PDF - 2 MB)
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Cisco Integrated Desktop Virtualization Solution With Tegile Zebi Storage
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Cisco UCS Storage Accelerator Solution: Optimize Your Desktop Virtualization Infrastructure (PDF - 1 MB)
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Cisco UCS VDI Solution: Scaling Without Sacrifice (PDF - 1 MB)
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Cisco Unified Computing System, Citrix XenDesktop, and Atlantis ILIO (PDF - 2 MB)
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Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 Built on Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers, Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches, and VMware ESXi 5.0: Reference Architecture and Deployment Guide
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VDI performance comparison: Cisco USC solution vs. HP solution (PDF - 1 MB)
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure: Meet the Challenge with Cisco Unified Computing System
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4 Month Payback - UCS Virtual Desktop TCO (PDF - 720 KB)
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Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solution for EMC VSPEX with Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 for 500 Desktops (Solution Brief) (PDF - 300 KB)