Cisco and AMD are Breaking the Mold with new density optimized UCS Solutions

We are less than a month away from celebrating AMD EPYC’s first birthday. What a year it’s been! We’ve built a revolutionary product line eagerly adopted by world class customers, ecosystem partners, and their customers. We now have 14 server systems partners and over 50 server platforms introduced and ramping. But we’re just getting started. To that end, I’m immensely proud to publicly welcome a proven datacenter innovator, Cisco and its Unified Computing System (UCS) Portfolio to the AMD EPYC™ family. The UCS C4200 solution featuring AMD EPYC holds enormous promise for UCS to continue its decade long drumbeat of bringing unparalleled innovation to their customers.

Cisco and AMD have a legacy of rethinking the status quo, shunning incrementalism, and introducing disruptive innovation with compelling customer value. Now a server and datacenter leader, many forget that it was almost ten years ago when Cisco turned the server industry upside down with its launch of “Project California” now known as UCS. UCS transformed the industry by unifying servers, virtualization, and storage access to help customers move towards a programmable infrastructure. 

The new UCS platform powered by AMD EPYC extends the Cisco UCS value of programmable, application centric infrastructure to use cases where core, memory, and storage density are key requirements. With AMD EPYC, Cisco is able to deliver 128% more cores, 50% more servers, and 20% more storage per rack than other Cisco UCS Servers. Coupling Cisco UCS Intersight and ACI with AMD’s Secure Memory Encryption and Secure Encrypted Virtualization technologies, holds enormous promise to help service providers and hybrid cloud administrators isolate multiple tenants and applications more securely. It really is an incredible match.

 We are committed to continuing to work with industry leaders like Cisco to help organizations meet the increased demand for data management and cost optimization. AMD EPYC provides the right balance of compute, memory, I/O and security for high density environments, so organizations can continue to keep pace and even stay ahead of emerging workload requirements. Stay tuned for more EPYC momentum in the coming weeks.