Detailed Course Outline
Market Trends and Business Drivers
- Space, Power, Cooling, Cabling
- Poor utilization, Lack of agility, Long provisioning times
- Cloud, IoT, Big Data, Mobility, Video
- SDN and ACI
- The Transition from Silos to a Converged Stack
Benefits of Converged Architectures
- Better utilization and dynamic mobility of resources
- Support for mixed workloads on shared resource pools
- Secure Multi-Tenancy
- Unified management of resources
VersaStack Components
- Cisco Components of VersaStack
- UCS Servers/Mini
- UCS Manager/Director
- Nexus Switches/1000v
- MDS Storage Solutions
- VersaStack ACI
- VersaStack SAN
- VersaStack Storage
- VersaStack Compute
How to Sell VersaStack
- Identifying Target Markets and Opportunities
- Engaging Stakeholders
- Building the Value Proposition
How does it ‘stack-up’ against the Competition?
- Other Converged Infrastructure Solutions
- Hyper-converged Solutions
Next Steps
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