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Cisco Pledges Cheaper On-Premise Storage Compared To AWS Cloud With New UCS S-Series Server

Cisco Pledges Cheaper On-Premise Storage Compared To AWS Cloud With New UCS S-Series Server

November 2, 2016

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Cisco Systems aims to grab market share with the launch of a storage-optimized server in its Cisco Unified Computing System family designed to address the needs of data-intensive workloads. The company said its new UCS S3260 S-Series, unveiled at the Cisco Partner Summit Tuesday, can lower total cost of ownership by more than 50 percent compared storing active data in the Amazon Web Services public cloud.

“This demands its own [product] categorization. This is not a rack server by any means; it’s totally modular,” said Todd Brannon, director of product marketing at Cisco, San Jose, Calif. “The S-Series itself is a platform that can scale with speed that rivals the public cloud [and] can do it at half the cost.”

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