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State of Alaska

“We are seeing significant cost savings in the hardware and data center space, due to a reduction in the number of server chassis and required cabling.”– Corey Kos, Enterprise Architect

• State and local government

• 24,400 employees

• Headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska

• Population of 722,718

• Largest state in the United States by area

• Cisco data center customer since 2010

• Theater: Americas

CUSTOMER STATS

CHALLENGE• Delays in delivering information technology services to end-users

• Different departmental standards and procedures

• Overall operational inefficiencies and lack of unified teams within data center

WHY CISCO DATA CENTER SOLUTIONS• Update the data center platform to more quickly provide services

• Cisco UCS simplifies data center operations and supports cloud computing

BENEFITS• Enabled Alaska to provide hosted services to agencies and

organizations statewide

• Increased IT department productivity by streamlining operations

• Increased speed of infrastructure deployment, enabling the State to provide services faster than ever before

• Reduced hardware purchases and power and cooling costs

CISCO DATA CENTER ENVIRONMENT• FlexPod

• Cisco Unified Computing System

• VMware

• NetApp

• Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers and Blade Chassis

• Cisco UCS 6140 Series Fabric Interconnects

• Cisco Nexus 7010

• Cisco WAN

• Partner: World Wide Technology