Companies need a reliable and cost-effective network architecture that supports the service objectives of their projects, while also meeting their business objectives. That's why more than 250 customers and 20 percent of the Fortune 100 rely on Cisco Nexus family switches to run their data centers.
A growing number of companies view the Cisco Nexus family of switches as the foundation they demand to efficiently build the next-generation data center.
"Cisco Nexus 7000 allows us to reduce solution costs with its ability to simplify the underlying network infrastructure, while simultaneously raising the bar on service availability." David Klem, Reference Architect, NetApp
Learn More about the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series, Nexus 5000 Series, Nexus 1000V Switch, and the brand new Nexus 2000 Series.
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Lowering the Cost Per Server by 30 Percent(Video - 2:46 min)
The Planet, a global IT hosting leader, found a way to provide 10 times more bandwidth to 22000 small business partners worldwide without spending 10 times more money.
Cisco Nexus 7000 Wins Interop Award
TechWeb's InformationWeek panel of experts selected Cisco Nexus 7000 as Best of Interop 2008 in the Infrastructure category.
The Efficiency and Flexibility You Need
Next-generation data centers need a network infrastructure that offers flexibility, high availability, and scalability.
The Cisco Nexus family delivers efficiency on multiple fronts:
Infrastructure and budget efficiency: High density, flexible form factors and virtualization capabilities mitigate sprawl and increase cost-effectiveness.
Power/cooling efficiency: Efficient design, virtualization capabilities, and technologies such as unified fabric support more energy efficient data center architectures. The unified fabric topology provides significant benefits related to the facilities, power, cooling, floor space, active device, and cabling infrastructure.
Operational efficiency: A unified data center operating system and automated processes.
Learn More about the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series, Nexus 5000 Series, Nexus 1000V Switch, and the brand new Nexus 2000 Series.
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Reducing Power Needs While Making Space(Video 2:27 min)
By using Cisco Nexus switches, Cisco IT has seen a dramatic reduction in cabling and power required, allowing for considerable expansion of server farms within data centers.
Data center virtualization has been evolving in three distinct platforms:
Network platform
Computing and storage platform
Virtualization platform
As customers deploy more advanced virtualization capabilities, operational complexity increases, becoming an expensive challenge.
The growing portfolio of Cisco Nexus switches gives you the flexibility to choose the optimal switch for a particular purpose, while still maintaining consistent implementation, management, and operations.
All the Cisco Nexus switches use Cisco NX-OS software, an operating system designed specifically for the data center and engineered to deliver the full potential of features such as resource virtualization and unified fabric.
VN-Link and Nexus 1000V, a result of Cisco and VMware collaboration, help enable you to simplify and scale server virtualization deployments.
Learn More about the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series, Nexus 5000 Series, Nexus 1000V Switch, and the brand new Nexus 2000 Series.
Nexus 1000V Wins VMworld 2008 Award
The editors of TechTarget Inc.'s SearchServerVirtualization.com chose the Cisco Nexus 1000V switch for the Best New Technology award at VMworld 2008.
Helping You Transform Your Data Center
The Cisco Nexus family of products is supported by services designed to help IT organizations accelerate the transformation of their data centers.
Help ensure that IT staff is equipped with the right skills and expertise for a dynamic environment
DCAP is consistent with the quality standards defined by the Cisco Validated Designs (CVD) Program that provides design guidance across Cisco network architectures.
Nexus Family Services
Three suites of services work together to help you create and optimize a scalable, virtualized, end-to-end data center architecture that is aligned with your business goals. These include:
Facilitating Access of Design and Test Information
The intuitive, interactive Cisco DCAP Design Best Practices Tool can significantly improve information access at various stages of a data center project.
Teaming Up with Scottrade(Video 3:16 min)
Cisco Advanced Services teams up with investment firm to create a data center solution that leads the industry in online trading speed.
