A Better Choice for Migration from Intel Itanium

At-A-Glance A Better Choice for Migration from Intel Itanium

The future of Oracle solutions running on Cisco Unified Computing System business operations, they must become more agile and Intel® Itanium® platforms is clear. Oracle Is the Best Option flexible while moving to support private clouds. Many commercial applications, including Oracle’s stopped all future development of Intel Cisco Services: Your Migration Partner Itanium processor-based servers, making software solutions, have been restructured to take advantage of the improved economics of industry- Understanding the process and its affect on day- migration unavoidable. The choice of IT standard x86 hardware with reliability and availability to-day operations is critical to successful migration. infrastructure is crucial, and choosing a that equals or surpasses current Intel Itanium or RISC Cisco® RISC/UNIX Migration Services provides a proven new one for mission-critical applications implementations. Global enterprises across a variety migration process to help IT departments move from Intel Itanium processor–based environments to Cisco UCS. is of paramount importance. Fortunately of industries rely on the x86 architecture–based Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS™) for their Using best-in-class migration methodologies, in-depth options exist—but choosing the right one is most critical business productivity applications and analysis tools, a robust planning process, and design and crucial to business success. database deployments. As IT departments transition implementation services, Cisco delivers a comprehensive, from strictly overhead to a strategic, integrated part of cost-effective approach to migration initiatives (Figure 1).

Migration Choices Figure 1. Cisco Offers One option is for organizations to migrate business- and End-to-end Migration RISC/UNIX Migration RISC/UNIX RISC/UNIX RISC/UNIX Services for Itanium, RISC, Acceleration Services Migration Strategy Migration Planning Migration Execution mission-critical applications and services from Intel or UNIX Migrations Itanium to alternative reduced instruction set computing (RISC)–based servers. However, with high acquisition, You are You understand You are ready to You engage the environmental, software licensing, and maintenance considering RISC/ the benets and move and want help industry-leading, costs, moving to another proprietary RISC or UNIX UNIX migration now want a with sizing and cost-eective Cisco migration strategy detailed planning Migration Factory infrastructure can put pressure on already strained IT (COTS and Custom) budgets. The problems with RISC and UNIX platforms are reflected in its declining market share, which is being RISC/UNIX Migration Service replaced by growth in the x86 architecture market. The x86 architecture delivers performance leadership and mission-critical reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS), creating widespread adoption. The long-term viability of proprietary RISC and UNIX architectures is in question, with industry-wide missed deadlines, changes in planned roadmaps, and termination of hardware and software support by multiple vendors.

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A Flexible Approach to Migration value than Intel Itanium, RISC and UNIX, and other Migration of enterprise applications to Cisco UCS Not all application migrations take the same path. x86-based solutions. The result is a high-performance, has achieved: Proper planning and a sound migration methodology innovative architecture that simplifies the migration of are needed to help ensure a successful migration. enterprise-class applications running in bare-metal, • 75 percent or more reduction in capital Cisco RISC/UNIX Migration Services provides a flexible, virtualized, and cloud-computing environments. expenditures (CapEx) collaborative approach that adapts to the complexity and importance of the applications to be migrated. Extensive Let Cisco Help You Migrate with • 40 percent reduction in operating expenses experience in migrating commercial off-the-shelf Confidence (COTS) and custom applications, together with strong (OpEx) despite the addition of a data center Cisco takes the worry out of planning for Intel relationships with software vendors such as Oracle and Itanium migrations. With Cisco UCS and Cisco RISC/ SAP, enables Cisco to deliver mission-critical migration • 40 to 100 percent performance improvement UNIX Migration Services, you can transform your IT without application downtime. infrastructure into a flexible, agile, cost-effective data center that is a strategic asset to the business. Imagine • Reduction in daily SAS Profitability Management An Extensive Services Portfolio the possibilities—an environment in which computing, processing time from 180 to 50 minutes The Cisco Services portfolio offers end-to-end migration networking, and storage access resources are part of an services, from initial assessment to application migration elastic, scalable, flexible infrastructure that can be put • 5 percent less power consumption and training. Depending on where you are in your into action at any moment. The task does not have to be migration planning, Cisco works with your stakeholders daunting. Using a proven, phased approach that builds to identify migration candidates. A site-specific migration • Reduction in deployment times from 6 to 8 weeks on system and service innovation, Cisco can help you strategy blueprint and high-level migration roadmap is to 15 minutes accelerate the move to a data center of the future at less prepared together with migration planning, application cost and with less risk. service-level requirement evaluation, and risk analysis. • 58 percent reduction in cables After a detailed migration plan is created, the Cisco For More Information Migration Factory approach for applications such as SAP and Oracle and custom applications provides an For more information about Cisco RISC/UNIX Migration efficient, cost-effective process for migrating your Services, go to http://www.cisco.com/go/migratetoucs mission-critical applications and databases to Cisco or contact your local account representative. UCS. After the migration is complete, Cisco provides operational support, including mentoring and knowledge For more information about the Cisco Unified Computing transfer. System, go to http://www.cisco.com/go/ucs.

The Ideal Destination Platform: Cisco Unified Computing System If you are looking for cost savings and excellent performance, Cisco UCS is an ideal destination for your Intel Itanium migrations. Cisco UCS delivers a world- class, mission-critical computing platform with greater