Springpath Data Platform with Cisco UCS servers

Reference architecture

Published October 2015

Springpath Data Platform (SPD) is uniquely positioned to take advantage of the Cisco UCS server platform. SPD is server agnostic, meaning that it will work on any set of qualified servers. UCS offers some specific server configuration advantages for a hardware agnostic data platform. SPD is a natural fit for virtualisation and other data platform needs in many organisations have settled on Cisco UCS as a vendor of record. While utilising Cisco UCS as a stand alone server platform is perfectly acceptable for SPD, the ability to take advantage of UCS’s formidable server specs, it’s Fabric Interconnect, expandability, central manageability, and wide availability and support make the combination very attractive.