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Consert Inc.

“The Cisco UCS platform has enabled Consert to go to that commercial level…I’m confident that UCS will continue to move us forward.”– Todd Horsman, Vice President of Operations, Consert Inc.

• Industry: Energy

• 60 employees

• Based in San Antonio, Texas

• Founded in 2008

• Cisco data center customer since 2010

• Theater: Americas

• Offers utility companies and consumers smart grid technology and load resource management solutions

CUSTOMER STATS

CHALLENGE• Support new commercial product deployment and growing

customer base

• Manage real-time load data in high-volume, high-transaction environment

• Simplify data center management with unified console

WHY CISCO DATA CENTER SOLUTIONS• Cisco UCS provides scalable, reliable server platform

• UCS B230 Blade Servers offer best-in-class virtualization and expanded memory

• Cisco UCS Manager and integration with VMware, NetApp ease management

BENEFITS• Integrated smoothly with existing data center components

• Freed up management time, allowing focus on more critical operational issues

• Enabled business growth with new platform for product commercialization

CISCO DATA CENTER ENVIRONMENT

• Cisco UCS B230 M1 Blade Servers

• Cisco Nexus 7010, 5000, 2000 Switches

• Cisco Nexus 2148, 2248, 2232 Fabric Extenders

• Cisco Nexus 4000 Blade Switches

• Data center contains 4 quadrants with 540 server racks apiece

• Applications: VMware, NetApp