Cisco releases fifth-generation Unified Computing System

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Cisco releases fifth-generation Unified Computing System
Cisco announced a new generation of its Unified Computing System. Cisco UCS M5 delivers new systems and software that extend unified computing for data-intensive workloads, applications at the edge, and the next generation of distributed application architectures. Built on the new Intel Xeon Scalable processors, UCS M5 servers support up to double the memory capacity of previous systems and deliver up to 86 percent higher performance over the previous generation of UCS, Cisco said. 

The new generation of servers includes the B200 M5 Blade Server, B480 M5 Blade Server, C220 M5 Rack Server, C240 M5 Rack Server and Cisco UCS C480 M5 Rack Server. Cisco also released the UCS Director 6.5 and added Cisco Workload Optimization Manager to control the new servers and manage the workload. 

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