On September 10th, 2013 Cisco introduced support for the Intel? Xeon? Processor E5-2600 v2 product family on the Cisco UCS B200 M3, C240 M3, and C220 M3 servers.  On the same day as the Intel announcement Cisco captured seven world records on industry benchmarks on Cisco UCS to highlight the breadth of Cisco's product line and the way in which Cisco can accelerate performance across the data center- on enterprise applications, Java application servers, desktop virtualization, and raw CPU power.

As we know, there is no better way to compare performance than by using industry-standard benchmarks, and with seven  new world record performance benchmark results Cisco has demonstrated Cisco Unified Computing System's outstanding performance and IT productivity across key data center workloads. Check out the Performance Brief for additional information on the seven new Cisco UCS world record benchmarks. The detailed benchmark disclosure reports are available here.

Cisco UCS delivers versatility with performance leadership across a wide range of workloads, enabling customers to eliminate infrastructure silos historically driven by unique application needs.  The performance leadership across a wide range of workloads provided by Cisco UCS is validated by the seven World records announced this week which include:

• Oracle E-Business Suite Applications R12 Benchmark
• SPECjbb2013 Benchmark (MultiJVM x86/x64 Java server performance)
• SPECjbb2005 (Java business logic performance)
• SPECint_base2006 (general CPU performance)
• SPECfp_rate_base2006 (general CPU performance)
• SPECompG_base2012
• VMware View Planner Benchmark (desktop virtualization performance)

 It is interesting to note that although all vendors have access to same Intel processors, only Cisco UCS unleashes their power to deliver high performance to applications through the power of unification. The unique, fabric-centric architecture of Cisco UCS, with exclusive Cisco SingleConnect Technology, maximizes Intel innovations and as a result Cisco UCS with the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2 family deliveredup to 48 percent better performance over the prior generation of Intel Xeon processorsas shown in the graph below:

 So the momentum continues...In four short years, the Cisco UCS has captured over 81 world records for performance and IT productivity taking its place among the most trusted server vendors on the market. Check out the Cisco Unified Computing System? 81 World-Record Performance Results.

The architectural advantages of a single cohesive system optimized for virtualized environments coupled with the industry leading performance validated by World Record Industry-Standard Benchmarks makes the Cisco Unified Computing System an"infrastructure platform of choice"to provide industry-leading performance in your data center. Don't forget to check the excellent blog by Todd Brannon at http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/tick-tock-goes-the-server-clock

These world-record performance results further reinforce the fact thatCisco is not just selling servers-it is re-inventing the server market. For additional information on Cisco UCS and Cisco UCS solutions please visit Cisco Unified Computing & Servers web page.

Girish Kulkarni

Sr. Product Marketing Manager

Unified Computing System 

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