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ConnectEDU

“Our new [Cisco UCS] infrastructure is delivering five times more speed, and it allows my team to work faster.” – Rick Blaisdell, Chief Technology Officer

• Education and career management solutions provider

• 100+ employees

• Based in Boston, MA

• Founded in 2002

• Serves more than 5 million college and high school aged students

• Cisco data center customer since 2007

• Theater: Americas

CUSTOMER STATS

CHALLENGE• Reduce complexity of managing many different technologies

• Lower cost of maintaining large number of physical servers

• Deploy cloud platform to meet growing company needs

WHY CISCO DATA CENTER SOLUTIONS• Cisco UCS enables server virtualization

• Cisco UCS B200 Series Blade Servers reduce cost with integrated systems management

• Cisco Nexus switches form a new network foundation

BENEFITS• Reduced monthly data center costs by 35%

• Accelerated application performance 5x

• Cut time spent provisioning new applications down from 7 weeks to a few hours

CISCO DATA CENTER ENVIRONMENT

• Cisco UCS (B200, B230, B250)

• Cisco Nexus 7000 switches

• Cisco Nexus 2000 switches

• Cisco Nexus 1000V switches

• Cisco ASA 5500

• Partner: NaviSite

• Applications: Unix, Windows, .NET

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