Cisco racks up 500th UCS victory in Europe

Computacenter deployment allows vendor to reach milestone for new server technology

Cisco is celebrating 500 Unified Computing System (UCS) wins in Europe following a Computacenter deployment at Gloucestershire Constabulary.

The corporate VAR is installing a Cisco UCS solution at the constabulary's primary datacentre at Quedgeley and linking it with a disaster recovery centre at Cheltenham.

The constabulary previously ran a traditional datacentre with about 200 physical servers but was finding that approach expensive and difficult to manage, according to the press release.

Cisco leapt into the server space two years ago with UCS and the first UK deployment was announced this time last year by Logicalis.

Wendy Mars, European director for Data Centres & Virtualisation at Cisco, argued the vendor had made swift progress.

"To reach this milestone so quickly is a fantastic testament to the platform and the value that our customers are realising from this fresh approach to streamline their datacentre operations while increasing efficiency and scalability," she said.

Computacenter's implementation includes two server chassis, eight Cisco B200 blade servers and four Cisco UCS 6120XP 20-Port Fabric Interconnects. The implementation will also include Cisco UCS Startup Accelerator Services: a package of consultancy, training and knowledge-transfer support services.

Ade Foxall, director of UCS, Computacenter, said: "As a Cisco UCS Authorized Technology Provider Partner, Computacenter looks forward to working with Gloucestershire Constabulary to achieve their datacentre optimisation objectives."