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Add significant value to your business by improving manageability, performance, virtualisation and consolidation.

Consolidation

SmartStack can deliver a huge amount of performance and capacity from a very small package, helping to rationalise your datacentre and reduce the number of physical systems to manage and maintain, without any compromises.

Let us show you how we can shrink your datacentre with SmartStack, simplifying management and ultimately reducing cost.

SmartStack uses high performance servers and storage, and can satisfy even the most demanding transactional applications. Whether it is a point solution for a particular demanding application or a high performance platform to deliver ALL of your applications and services, SmartStack can be sized to satisfy either.

Virtual Desktops

The demands of a VDI environment can be high, with surges of high read and write activity, which if not served adequately by the underlying storage system, delivers a very poor end user experience. Nimble Storage can deliver very high read and write performance with low latency, thus can deliver an exceptional experience to VDI users. The SmartStack architecture is flexible to satisfy different VDI requirements and easily scalable, to expand if your VDI user base grows.

Cloud Enabler

SmartStack is a complete datacentre in a box providing servers, networking and storage, allowing businesses to build their own private cloud solutions. With support for a range of Hypervisors including VMware, Hyper-V and RHEV, SmartStack is increasingly being used by Cloud Providers to provide services to their customers.

Bring Speed, Scale, and Simplicity to Your Data Center

SmartStack helps you quickly and confidently deploy performance optimised applications and workloads across server virtualisation, desktop virtualisation infrastructure (VDI), private cloud, and critical enterprise workloads. SmartStack leverages the seamless, independent scaling of both Cisco UCS and Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash storage arrays to create right-sized deployments to help the availability of critical workloads. The entire infrastructure can be managed by Cisco UCS Director, providing unified management, saving on both CapEx and OpEx, greatly reducing your total cost of ownership (TCO).

Increased staff efficiency

With roughly 80 percent of IT staff time being consumed to manage and maintain siloed traditional infrastructure, SmartStack dramatically increases your staff efficiency and significantly reduce errors resulting from repetitive, manual configuration tasks. Policy-based automation increases efficiency, frees staff time, and helps ensure compliance. Cisco UCS Director provides comprehensive infrastructure automation and orchestration for your SmartStack solution.

Steve Hoensch, Infrastructure Team Manager, University of Cambridge

“Amazingly fast, flexible and easy to manage technology that has allowed us to remove our old Tier 1 storage and replace it with a significantly smaller footprint.”

Need a reason to choose SmartStack? Here’s five:

Superior performance

Get optimal storage performance that adapts to the demands of the most critical virtualisation workloads.

Low costs

Keep costs low with efficient infrastructure and simple management.

Increased flexibility

Flexibly scale to handle growing number of users and increasing end-user needs.

Enhanced protection

Enable frequent and fast backup, simplified recovery, and affordable disaster recovery.

Reduced Risk

Lower the risk of VDI and simplify deployment with pre-tested reference architectures.

Superior performance
Get optimal storage performance that adapts to the demands of the most critical virtualisation workloads.
Low costs
Keep costs low with efficient infrastructure and simple management.
Increased flexibility
Flexibly scale to handle growing number of users and increasing end-user needs.
Enhanced protection
Enable frequent and fast backup, simplified recovery, and affordable disaster recovery.
Reduced Risk
Lower the risk of VDI and simplify deployment with pre-tested reference architectures.