R2 Unified Technologies Data Center Fabric integrates Cisco Unified Fabric, Cisco Unified Computing, and Cisco Unified Network Services. The uncomplicated, scalable, and highly secure data center fabric is designed to deliver any application to any location -- within the data center, across data centers, or to the cloud.

Meet changing data center needs with deployment flexibility; increase value with innovation, excellence, and solution differentiation.

The Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) is a next-generation data center platform optimized for virtualization that unites compute, network, and storage access into a single, cohesive system.

Server virtualization with Cisco UCS provides the following benefits:

• Consolidated workloads, raised utilization levels, and reduced operating, capital, space, power, and cooling expenses
• Ability to move workloads dynamically within a virtualization pool for greater flexibility
• Optimized performance and service levels
• Capability to scale existing applications or deploy new ones by creating more virtual machines using an existing pool of resources
• High-availability and disaster-recovery features

The Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) combines high-performance servers, high-speed networking, storage access, and virtualization into an integrated, smart infrastructure. Automatically configured through unified, model-based management, the Cisco UCS simplifies deployment of enterprise applications running in bare-metal or virtualized environments. Cisco UCS greatly enhances flexibility and reduces TCO. The Cisco UCS offers:

• A single converged system: Transcending the traditional boundaries of blade chassis and racks, Cisco UCS brings together server, network, and storage access resources to create a physically distributed but centrally managed system.
• Smart infrastructure: By abstracting the personality, configuration, and connectivity of server and I/O resources, these attributes can be programmed automatically.
• Unified, model-based management: The ability to associate a model configuration with system resources lets IT organizations consistently align policy, server personality, and workloads
• Unified fabric: By integrating IP, storage, and inter-process communication networks into a single I/O infrastructure, Cisco UCS simplifies cabling and upstream switching while delivering uniform I/O connectivity at no extra cost.
• Cisco Fabric Extender technology: The network fabric is extended directly to blade servers and virtual machines, with traffic meeting at a single point for consistent, centralized management and unprecedented visibility and control over virtualized environments.