#Cisco Systems aims to grab market share with the launch of #UCS S3260 S-Series storage-optimised server. The new addition to the unified computing system family was designed to address the needs of data-intensive workloads. According to Cisco, UCS S3260 S-Series can lower total cost of ownership by more than 50 percent compared to storing active data in the #Amazon Web Services public cloud. "This demands its own [product] categorisation. This is not a rack server by any means; it's totally modular," said Todd Brannon, director of product marketing at Cisco. "The S-Series itself is a platform that can scale with speed that rivals the public cloud [and] can do it at half the cost." "We're going to take share away from the traditional server architectures and the vendors there, and I categorise that as anybody else who sells a server is somebody we're going to take share from," said Brannon. The UCS S3260 is Cisco's first offering in its new S-Series aimed at delivering rapid scalability and cloud connectivity. It will enable organisations to handle the growth of unstructured data being created by the rise of internet of things, video, mobility and data analytics by allowing customers to access and analyse data in real time, according to Brannon. The UCS S3260 is second-generation technology based on Cisco's C3160 rack server, which was released in 2014. The UCS S3260 has up to 600TB of storage capacity, 90TB of solid state drive flash, cache acceleration capabilities, and provides scaling with Cisco's UCS Manager software and unified input/output (I/O) connectivity for any type of storage. Scott Mohr, data centre lead for Cisco's global partner organisation, said the new offering also enables channel partners to "attack a large refresh and install base" of existing Cisco UCS customers.
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