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Microsoft Partner Solutions Center (MPSC)

“We have broken ground in terms of showing what Cisco can do in a Microsoft environment. It shows that when Microsoft and Cisco want to work together to accomplish great things, we can do it rather easily.”– David Hayes, Senior Director, Microsoft Partner Solutions Center

• Publicly traded company; NASDAQ: MSFT, SEHK: 4338

• Technology

• 90,412 employees

• MPSC offers customers, partners, and BU a state-of-the-art IT facility for testing and demos

• More than 30 partners in residence

• Based in Redmond, Washington

• Cisco data center customer since 2011

• Theater: Americas

CUSTOMER STATS

CHALLENGE• Enhance virtualization infrastructure with new, advanced server

platform

• Update processor and memory availability, and decrease data center footprint

• Improve virtualized services and create private cloud

WHY CISCO DATA CENTER SOLUTIONS• Cisco UCS providers full management platform and virtual machine

automation

• Cisco Nexus 7K and 5K switches provide 10GigE connectivity

• Cisco Services helps the MPSC migrate to Cisco UCS in just one day

BENEFITS• Streamlined data center operations with fully automated

provisioning

• Reduced deployment time for host servers from day to less than hour

• Lowered power usage by 66%, resulting in major cost savings

CISCO DATA CENTER ENVIRONMENT

• Cisco UCS B200 and B230 Blade Servers

• Cisco Nexus 7000, 5020, and 5010 Switches

• Microsoft Applications: Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter edition with Hyper-VSystem Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012, System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, Service Manager 2010, Systems Center Configuration Manager 2012, SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint, and Hyper-V

• Cisco Data Center Optimization Services