Cisco unveils its 5th generation of servers

Cisco unveils its new generation of servers and software, Unified Computing System (UCS) M5 delivers new systems and software that extend the power and simplicity of unified computing for data-intensive workloads, applications at the edge, and the next generation of distributed application architectures.

The company claims the new design built on the new Intel Xeon Scalable processors are the highest performing servers that reduces the administration and management costs by up to 63 percent and accelerating the delivery of new application services by up to 83 percent. With UCS M5 servers, Cisco believes enterprises can now are better equipped to digital transformation their businesses as the new servers can take on even more workloads, with up to double the memory capacity of previous systems.

According to Cisco, its lab testing report reveals that UCS M5 servers deliver up to 86% higher performance over the previous generation of UCS, delivering a significant step forward for data intensive workloads such as real-time analytics and in-memory computing. Further, the company to delivers the industry’s highest GPU density on blade servers for even greater efficiency. The M5 generation of servers include:

Cisco UCS B200 M5 Blade Server: a fundamental data center workhorse in a half-width blade form factor, the B200 delivers performance, versatility and density for traditional multi-tier or distributed applications. It leads the industry in GPU density on general purpose half-width blade servers with support for up to two GPUs.

Cisco UCS B480 M5 Blade Server: delivers market-leading performance, versatility and density for workloads ranging from memory-intensive, mission-critical enterprise applications to distributed database virtualized workloads.

Cisco UCS C220 M5 Rack Server: among the most versatile general-purpose enterprise infrastructure and application servers in the industry, this high-density 2-socket rack server delivers industry-leading performance and efficiency for a wide range of workloads, including virtualization, collaboration, and bare-metal applications.

Cisco UCS C240 M5 Rack Server: a storage and I/O optimized enterprise-class rack server for big data analytics, software-defined storage and bare metal applications.

Cisco UCS C480 M5 Rack Server: featuring an innovative modular architecture for flexible technology refreshes, the C480 delivers scale-up extensibility for in-memory databases, big data analytics, virtualization, VDI and bare metal applications. GPU support has tripled—with up to six supported—as has disk capacity, which now supports 32 drives.

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