The Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) is a revolutionary new computing architecture designed for IT innovation and business acceleration. The Cisco UCS enables Fast IT by combining computing, networking, and storage infrastructure with management and virtualization to offer exceptional speed, simplicity, and scalability. Cisco’s unique architecture provides pools of policy-based composable infrastructure that customers can optimize for traditional workloads, data analytics, and cloud-native applications, all within a common operating environment with open APIs for broad interoperability and automation. Cisco UCS has redefined computing to enhance application performance and scalability, simplify infrastructure management, reduce cost, and accelerate IT delivery to the business. Cisco UCS helps organizations: Deliver critical applications with industry-leading performance, availability, scalability, and security Accelerate the delivery of new application services Incorporate a wide range of storage, operating system, hypervisor, and management tools to address any application requirement Advance migration to a unified computing architecture with a complete set of plan-build-manage IT lifecycle services designed to reduce risk and increase performance Cisco’s innovative fabric-centric solution provides industry-leading application performance, lower-cost computing, and opportunity for real IT innovation.