Cisco continues its tradition ofperformance and price/performance leadershipwith the announcement of aworld-record TPC-H benchmarkwith the SAP Sybase IQ database on the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS?) platform. On October 31st 2013, Cisco published thebest single-system x86 performance and price/performance at 3000 GB on the TPC-H benchmark. Cisco UCS C420 M3 Rack Server achieved230,119.9 QphH@3000GB on theTPC-H benchmark with the SAP Sybase IQ database.

 As tested, the benchmark configuration consisted of a Cisco UCS C420 M3 Rack Server with 1 TB of memory and four 2.7-GHz Intel Xeon E5-4650 processors with 20 MB of cache space. The system ran SAP Sybase IQ Version 16 Single Application Server Edition (SASE) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Release 6.4. Check out the Performance Brief for additional information on the benchmark configuration. The detailed official benchmark disclosure report is available at the TPC Website .

 Some of the key highlights of Cisco's TPC-H Benchmark results are:

• Cisco UCS C420 M3 Rack Server achieved 230,119.9 QphH@3000GB on the TPC-H benchmarkwith the SAP Sybase IQ database. This is thebest performance result of any single-system x 86 configurations.
• Cisco UCS C420 M3 Rack Server demonstrated aprice/performance ratio of US$1.29 per QphH@3000GB,delivering thebest single-system price/performance at 3000GB.This result also illustrates the power of Cisco UCS C420 M3 Rack Servers to deliver industry-leading performanceat significantly lower cost of ownership.
• Cisco's result also demonstrates42 percent better performance at 48% less price-performance than the HP DL980 G7 server.

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Girish Kulkarni

Sr. Marketing Manager

Cisco Systems