enterprise messaging made agile, simple, efficient

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Enterprise Messaging Made Agile, Simple, Efficient

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Adapt to New Delivery Models

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Avoid Added Complexity

Enterprise Messaging:A Mission-Critical Service

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MicrosoftExchange 2010

Efficient

Agile

Sim

ple

Quality

ResourcesTime

Meet Today’s Messaging Challenges

Agile:• Streamline the move to a next-

generation data center and messaging platform

• Allow for extreme scalability for thousands of mailboxes as business requirements change

Efficient:• Enable the holistic management of the messaging infrastructure from the software

through to the bare metal

• Provide key capabilities designed to improve performance and availability and reduce costs

Simple:• Cisco Validated Designs provide a

certified, tested starting point for Microsoft Exchange deployments

• Turn to a comprehensive data center platform that supports physical or virtual infrastructures, or public or private cloud environment

Exchange 2010 on Cisco Unified Compute System (UCS)


Maintain a High Level of Agility• Quickly and easily add one mailbox

or thousands

• Configure additional Cisco UCS servers in minutes

Cisco UCS Service Profiles• Reduce migration time, decrease

likelihood of errors that lead to

application downtime, and increase

compliance of the infrastructure

• Ensure consistent server

configurations for all Microsoft

Exchange and Hyper-V server roles

AgileAchieve Better Business Responsiveness

Streamlined Migration

Extreme Scalability


A Single, Cohesive Management System

• Supports wide range of infrastructure needs across multiple data centers, infrastructures, and even hosting service providers

• Controls the server, storage, and network infrastructure through a single, cohesive management system

Lower Risk

• Making a move to Exchange 2010 on Cisco UCS is easier and less risky.

• Provides confidence via a tested and validated reference architecture for Microsoft Exchange 2010

SimpleEliminate Unnecessary Complexity

Cisco Validated Designs Unified Platform


Cisco UCS with Microsoft

Hyper-V

Designed to be fully

redundant

EfficientExecute Tasks Without Wasted Time, Resources or Diminished Performance

Extended memory

technology

Choose your storage system

Increased memory capacity

No Single Point of Failure

Virtualization Automation

Lower Storage Access Expense

Improved Consolidation

Ratios

Increased I/O Performance


Cisco UCS is designed to protect and speed data between servers and storage, with network

isolation for physical and virtual servers

• Out-of-the-box email archiving - provides tools to preserve email data invisibly to users and IT staff

• Define, deploy, and automate - the retention and archiving of email with the new retention policy framework

• Simplified e-discovery process, protection and compliance – now easier than ever with the new legal-hold policy

Keep it simple and secure

Facilitate and AutomateProtection and Compliance of All Email Data


Access at Any Time, from Any DeviceRealize the Exchange 2010 Advantage With Cisco UCS

Multiple Access Features Made Easy

Cisco’s virtualization-aware unified fabric:

• Securely transports all network and storage traffic

• Maintains isolation between traffic flows, visibility, and control even in virtualized environments

• Beyond the system, data flows quickly to user devices across enterprise networks and WANs

Uncompromised reliability and availability through

every layer by eliminating points of failure and

automating functions to avoid errors that can

cause downtime


Reduced RiskCisco Validated Designs for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

Speed Migration And Reduce Risk

• Obtain detailed guidance for how to create the best data center design for the solution, configuring the server, operating system or hypervisor, network, storage, and application-level services required, enabling rapid time-to-value for the solution

• Increase resource utilization, reduce capital costs, and improve reliability when using Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V as the foundation

• Simply add one or more blade servers to the prewired infrastructure when more mailbox servers are required

• Configure new servers in minutes - use the same services profiles already in use and install the software


Challenge• Replace aging server equipment and grow capacity

• Reduce energy and footprint of servers in at-capacity data center

• Improve manageability and control of virtualized environment

Solution• Deploy Cisco UCS to support mission-critical systems

including Active Directory, web servers, Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL databases, Windows clustering, file storage servers, and application servers that host various applications

Results• Increased capacity significantly

while reducing data center energy and cooling requirements

• Eliminated 75 additional, disparate physical servers throughout campus

• Improved manageability of infrastructure

• Accelerated provisioning of new servers “Elon University has truly become a 24x7 institution and we’ve created a state-of-the-art data center that supports that now as we continue to grow”

Tony RoseAssistant Direct for IS & T For systems Administration, Elon University

Elon UniversityMicrosoft Exchange Server on Cisco UCS in the Real World


Challenge• Increase data center flexibility to support information delivery goals

• Support 1600 users with four technicians

• Applications include:• Meditech, BMH’s primary clinical application

• Picture archiving and communication system (PACS)

• Physician office electronic medical record (EMR) system

• Microsoft Exchange and productivity applications

• Increase infrastructure redundancy

Solution• Cisco UCS B250 M1 Extended

• Memory Blade Servers with Intel

• Xeon 5600 Series processors

• Cisco UCS B200 M2 Blade

• Servers with Intel Xeon 5600 series processors

• Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches

• Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Director

Results• Virtualized desktops to securely deliver patient information

everywhere needed

• Simplified caregiver login and roaming through single sign-in

• Greatly reduced infrastructure management time and complexity

• Created virtual test environment to support software migration and testing

“Even if users do not notice a difference, the virtualized environment gives my team much greater agility. We can back them up better, provide more portability in their workflow, and make the technology more invisible to them.”

Edward RicksCIO & VP Information Services

Beaufort Memorial HospitalAchieving Greater Agility and Productivity


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State of Alaska

• State and local government

• 24,400 employees

• Headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska

• Population of 722,718

• Largest state in the United States by area

• Cisco data center customer since 2010

Customer stats

Challenge• Delays in delivering information technology services to end-users

• Different departmental standards and procedures

• Overall operational inefficiencies and lack of unified teams within data center

Why cisco data center solutions• Update the data center platform to more quickly provide services

• Cisco UCS simplifies data center operations and supports cloud computing

Benefits• Enabled Alaska to provide hosted services to agencies and

organizations statewide

• Increased IT department productivity by streamlining operations

• Increased speed of infrastructure deployment, enabling the State to provide services faster than ever before

• Reduced hardware purchases and power and cooling costs

Cisco Data Center Environment

• FlexPod

• Cisco Unified Computing System

• VMware

• NetApp

• Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers and Blade Chassis

• Cisco UCS 6140 Series Fabric Interconnects

• Cisco Nexus 7010

• Cisco WAN

• Partner: World Wide Technology

“We are seeing significant cost savings in the hardware and data center space, due to a reduction in the number of server chassis and required cabling.”

– Corey Kos, Enterprise Architect


Deliver the Next-Generation Messaging Solution

Quickly

• Decreased time to provision new server resources from 5 days to 20 minutes

• Reduced time spent managing physical servers by 80 percent

- National FFA Org.

Cost-effectively

• Reduced operating costs by US$475,000 within six months of deployment

• Slashed network outages, for cost savings of $100,000 per month

- Seven Corners Inc.

And with minimal risk

• Provision cloud based services in less than 24 hours

• High level security for cloud based services

- Radiant Communications


Agile. Simple. Efficient.

• Investigate the possibilities: www.cisco.com (search for Microsoft Exchange 2010)

• Discover the solutions: www.cisco.com/go/microsoft

• Realize the true benefits: www.cisco.com/go/systemcenterforucs

Cisco UCS for Microsoft Exchange

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