Data Center Network Evolution Get Your Network Ready for the Demands of Tomorrow

Read on or view our “Data Center Network

Evolution: Why Now?” webcast to learn

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Global Data Center

IP Traffic Will Nearly

Triple over the Next

Five Years

Applications

Consume 41% of

IT Budgets

75% of Resources

Are Dedicated to

Maintenance

More Applications More Complexity

Data Center Networks Are Under Pressure

More Traffic

Source: Cisco Global Cloud Index

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/service-provider/global-cloud-index-gci/Cloud_Index_White_Paper.html

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The Market Is Driving the Technology Change

Network Implications

Technology Transitions

Mobile

Business Imperatives

Mobile Cloud New Breed

of Apps Data and Analytics

Internet of Things

Growth and Productivity

New Business Models

Experience Expectations

Globalization Security Threats and Compliance

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Deliver Scale/ Performance for the Cloud and Beyond

Cloud

app

app

app

app

app

app

app

app

app

Align with Apps Requirements

Database Hosting and ERP

Email and Calendaring

Application and Web Services

Content Management

Data

Center

Simplify Management and Operations

Data

Center

Data Center Interconnect

Today’s Switches in Data Center Don’t Meet Tomorrow’s Needs

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Data Center and Cloud Networking Portfolio

Cisco Nexus 5000

Cisco Nexus 7000

Cisco Nexus 3000

Cisco Nexus 2000

Application Centric

Infrastructure (ACI)

Cisco Nexus 9000

APIC* ACI Cisco

Nexus 6000

Cisco Nexus 1000V

*Summer 2014

Ecosystem*

Delivering Your Data Center Needs • Resilient, High Performance Fabric

(10/40/100 GE)

• SCALABLE SECURE SEGMENTATION

(VXLAN)

• Workload Mobility Within/Across DCs

• LAN/SAN Convergence

• Operational Efficiency—P-V-C

• Architectural Flexibility

Customer Proven • 55K+ NX-OS customers

• 17K+ FEX customers

• 8.5K+ Nexus 1KV customers

• 3K+ Fabric Path customers

Portfolio Option 1

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Agility Velocity Economics Experience Security

Cisco Data Center Networking Benefits

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Agile Foundation Maximize Virtualization and Private Cloud Capabilities

• Pervasive virtualization

• Better capacity management

• Better resource sharing

• New revenue opportunities

Agility

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Assured User Experience Enhance Performance and Resiliency

Experience

• Scale within and across data centers

• Support massive traffic

• Deliver exceptional application

performance

• Speed resource provisioning

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Industry-Leading Security Integrated, Virtualized Security Extends Beyond Data Center

Security

• Ease of Provisioning

• Maximized Performance

• Pervasive Protection

• Stronger Compliance

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Redefining Data Center Economics Dramatic Reductions in CapEx and OpEx

Infrastructure

Costs

Power and

Cooling

Application Performance

Deployment

Times

IT

Staffing

2x Capacity

No Staff Increase

30% Less Cost

90% Less Time

30% Faster

60% Less Cost

Economics

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Services from Cisco Together with Cisco Channel Partners

We Can Help Services to Guide Each Step of Your Transition

Smart

Service

Capabilities

Velocity

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We help structure your investment to suit your financial goals.

Flexible data center financing that supports your financial priorities including fixed and

variable costs, and payment holidays. One contract simplifies budget management and

provides a platform to align your technology to your business priorities.

There are a range of tailored solutions where you

only pay for what you use and can manage demand

spikes by rapidly deploying spare capacity.

Programs include:

• The Options Program

• Step Financing

• Multi-Term Financing

• Pay As You Grow

• Flexible Demand

• Visit www.ciscocapital.com to learn more!

We Can Help Data Center Financing to Get there Faster and with less Risk

Velocity

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Data Center

Network Evolution

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Why Upgrade Now? Four Key Reasons

Data Center Network Evolution Can Directly Impact Your Business Results

Falling Behind Competitors

or Failing to Satisfy

Customers Increases

Business Risk

Business Risk Rising Cost of

Aging Technology

Falling Behind the

Technology Curve Increases

the Cost of Delivering

Services

Many Deployed Switches

Will No Longer Be

Supported, Leaving You

Vulnerable to Outages

Technology Risk

Being Unable to Quickly

Respond to New Business

Ideas Leads to Lost

Revenue Opportunities

Lost Opportunities

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on what you can do to be ready.

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Why Now?” webcast to learn more.

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What Are the Next Steps?

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Contact Your Account Manager and

engage in one or more of our assessments

to determine your current state and future

requirements for your Data Center

Network Infrastructure.

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