Cisco marked the 5-year anniversary of its entry into the server market. Since launching its Unified Computing System in March 2009, morre than 30,000 customers have implemented the servers. According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Q4 2013, February 2014, Revenue Share: Cisco is ranked second worldwide in x86 blade server revenue market share, with 32 percent share in the US and a top five ranking among server vendors overall. Over 80 percent of all Cisco’s UCS sales come through its 3,850 channel partners.
“Innovation and partnerships are the engines of growth for our data center business,” said Ken Trombetta, VP, Worldwide Channels at Cisco. “Our channel partners immediately embraced UCS, and today nearly 4,000 partners worldwide sell UCS. We will continue to win with our partners in the data center by delivering innovation through a highly secure and application centric infrastructure.”
