T H E C U R E F O R S E R V E R S P R AW LSmall and medium-sized businesses everywhere are reporting symptoms of “server sprawl.” This epidemic

is characterized by an overabundance of underutilized servers and storage systems, often caused by

running one application per server to protect against potential machine crashes. FlexPod® Express with

VMware is the cure—saving you money, energy, time, and … did we say money?

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C U R E “T H E S P R AW L”

symptomWasting money on too many servers

symptomWasting money and energy powering unused server and storage capacity

symptomWasting time and money maintaining servers and storage

cureFlexPod Express consolidates multiple physical servers and storage systems onto a single, powerful, shared platform.

cureFlexPod Express reduces the energy required to power and cool physical server and storage systems.

cureFlexPod Express enables overworked IT staff to spend less time maintaining servers and storage systems, and more time on strategic projects.

Result: Cut your server and storage-related costs by 50% when you consolidate your resources through virtualization.

Result: Recoup your initial investment in two years or less—based on energy savings alone.

Result: Convert hours spent on manual maintenance into time spent purely on business growth.

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Fact: Many servers and storage systems are utilized less than 20%.

Fact: Energy costs for physical servers and storage systems are up to 40% higher than virtualized solutions.

Fact: Physical servers and storage systems can take 3x longer to deploy than virtual solutions

Call your Cisco partner to discover how FlexPod Express with VMware can cure your costly server

sprawl issues by consolidating multiple servers and storage systems onto powerful Cisco UCS™

Servers and switches, NetApp® FAS storage, and VMware virtualization software.

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