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May 2016
IDC Report: Business Value of Cisco UCSIntegrated Infrastructure for Big Data
Optimize YourBig Data ROI
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Business Value Highlights
3-year ROI Break-even Fasterbig data deployment*
Fasterserver deployment*
Loweroperating costs*
Better data-scientist productivity*
Ease of Cisco UCS® deployment allows you
to capture big databenefits earlier
Reduce Time-to-Value for Big Data Projects
Expand big data operations in less time to better support your
growing array of data-based line-of-business objectives
Scale BigData Solutions
Leading Cisco UCS performance provides users
with insights faster
Optimize Big Data Performance
Cisco UCS costs lessand needs less staff
time to manage
Lower Big Data TCO
* Compared to other solutions considered by interviewed organizations
5months 56% 62% 32% 26%366%
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The Big Data and Analytics Imperative
Digitizationof Everything
Deluge of data holdspowerful insights
Demand forSelf-Service
Empower better decisionmaking for all
Promiseof Predictability
Anticipate outcomes to innovate faster and reduce costs
Scarcity of Big Data ExpertsAddress demand and
supply gap for ITand business expertise
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Big Data Infrastructure Implications
Speed to insight is essential to
compete effectively
High Performance
Data-based insightsare critical to
business operations
High Availability
Businesses need to be able to handle large variations in demandand scale linearly
and easily
Scalability
Use automation and simplified processes
to increaseproductivity of scarce
management resources
EfficiencyHigh growth of
big data use casesand workloads requires
fast deploymentand redeployment
of resources
Rapid Deployment and Redeployment
End-to-end security is needed, including
the capability to isolate sensitive
data in shared environments
Secure
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Cisco Solutions Address Your Big Data Requirements
• Performance: Improve traffic latency and throughput across the network and prioritize big data and analytics workloads
• Availability: Continuously monitor network and adapt tonetwork conditions
• Redeployment: Policies allow fast redeployment ofcluster resources
• Security: Isolate data paths through policy-basedprogrammable fabric
• Scalability: Clusters can consist of thousands of servers and petabytes (PB) of storage
• Low TCO: Save costs through significant reduction in the number of cables and switches, automated I/O, and direct SAN access
• Performance: Cisco UCS has set more than 110 world-record benchmarks
• Easy, comprehensive management: Automate server deployment and manage 10,000 servers from a single pane
Comprehensive, automated infrastructure simplifies management
Cisco Nexus® 9000 Series Switches
Cisco® Application PolicyInfrastructure Controller (APIC)
Improve performance, security, and TCO for big data workloads
Cisco UCS® Cisco ACI™
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Attribute Average Range
Number of employees 60,000 800 to 157,000
Number of Cisco UCS® servers 141 18 to 750
Number of applications on Cisco UCS 3 0 to 10
Number of TB on Cisco UCS 219 1 to 750
Number of users on Cisco UCS 7,500 15 to 20,000
Countries United States, Canada, and Italy
IndustriesProfessional services, financial services, government, automotive, healthcare, andcloud services
Demographics of Interviewed Organizations
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Organizations Attribute Cisco UCS Business Value to Three Main Areas
IDC projects that big data operations based on Cisco UCS® will deliver an average of US$4.19 million per year
over 3 years:• Increasing employee productivity
• Enabling higher revenue through services and products supported by scalability, performance and fast deployment of Big Data operations
Business Productivity Benefits
IDC predicts that each business will achieve IT staff productivity benefits worth an average of US$550,000 per
year over 3 years:• Achieving greater productivity for
application development teams by reducing time to deploy resources, higher application performance
IT Staff Productivity Gains
IDC calculates that each organization will achieve IT infrastructure cost
reductions averaging US$17,000 per year over 3 years:
• Cisco UCS has a 3-year cost of operations that is 32% less than other platforms
• High reliability will result in just ½ hour of downtime per user per year
Operating Cost Efficiencies and Reliability
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Cisco UCS: Impact on SupportingBusiness and Users
Attribute Average
Revenue Impact
Average additional revenue per year US$6.6 million
Assumed operating margin 15%
Average net operating margin gain US$1 million
Productivity Benefits
Average number of users affected 138
Average productivity gain 8.8%
Average FTE impact 12
Benefits stem from faster time to market, better performance, and better scalability
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Cisco UCS: Time-to-Market and Scalability for Big Data
Time-to-Market Metrics and Cisco UCS®
“Time to deploy
big data solutionTime to deploy
per server
56% less 62% less
Cisco UCS Alternative
8
18
4
10
Values are based on number of Weeks
Cisco UCS helps us reduce the time to respond to new capacity requests by
typically two months. That’s significant, because with UCS, you can just drop a
rack in there and you’re done. The impact is felt throughout the entire
organization, because they’re waiting for the Big Data analytics results.
“
”- IDC Survey Respondent 2016
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Cisco UCS: Impact of Leading PerformanceData scientists and application developers, respectively, are 26% and 15% more productive
with consistent, relevant, timely, and high-quality data
Big data produc-tivity gain
Attributable to Cisco UCS
Data Scientist and Data Analyst Productivity Gains
Overall: 25.5%
Data scientists and data analysts
Values are based on percentage productivity gain
17.5%
8%
We have 300 data scientists who are 50% more productive since we deployed
Cisco UCS for Big Data.“
”- IDC Survey Respondent 2016
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Cisco UCS: Cost of Operations and ReliabilityIDC: Interviewed organizations will have 32% lower operating costs for their Cisco UCS® environments over 3 years than with the alternative hardware platforms they considered
Three-Year Cost of Operations, Cisco UCS Versus Alternative
32% less
Ongoing management staff time cost ($1,250,000)
Initial deployment staff time cost ($400,000)
Ongoing data center power and facilities Costs ($600,000)
Ongoing cost of servermaintenance ($200,000)
Initial cost of solution($1,100,000)
Ongoing management staff time cost ($900,000)
Initial deployment staff time cost ($100,000)
Ongoing data center power and facilities Costs ($300,000)
Ongoing cost of servermaintenance ($100,000)
Initial cost of solution($900,000)
Cisco UCS for Big Data Alternative
Values in US$
The costs would have been greater with the competing solution. We
would not have been able to connect servers directly to the fabric
interconnect and this would have meant buying additional switchesfor tens of thousands of dollars
“
”- IDC Survey Respondent 2016
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Cisco UCS: 3-Year ROI Analysis
Attribute Per Organization Per Cisco UCS® Server
Benefit (discounted) US$11.35 Million US$80,284
Investment (discounted) US$2.44 Million US$17,244
Net Present Value (NPV) US$8.91 Million US$63, 040
Return on Investment (ROI) 366% 366%
Payback (months) 4.9 4.9
Discount Rate 12% 12%
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Faster speed to insight
High Performance
Reliable delivery of business critical insights
High Availability
Scales linearly, easily for greater agility
Scalability
Leading automation, simplified processes
maximize productivity, dramatically lower TCO
Efficiency
Faster deployment, redeploymentof resources
Rapid Deployment and Redeployment
Isolate sensitive data in shared environments
Secure
Cisco UCS Addresses Big Data and Analytics Requirements Today and Tomorrow
As Big Data workloads start demanding more and more from customers’ infrastructures, Cisco is in a unique position… to shift the focus from ever more and faster processing power to intelligently designed and managed networks. Significant benefits in speed, efficiency, utilization and TCO can be achieved with this approach.
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- IDC Survey Respondent 2016
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