Also launches,

Industry's first reference architecture for Hadoop with advanced access control and encryption with IDH,first flash-enhanced reference architecture for Hadoop demonstrated using YCSB with MapR,industry's first validated and certified solution for real-time Big Data analytics with SAP HANA,and Unleashing IT big data special edition

Built up on our vision of shared infrastructure and unified management for enterprise applications,the Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture (CPA) for Big Data has become a popular choice for enterprise Big Data deployments. It has been widely adopted in finance, healthcare, service provider, entertainment, insurance, and public sectors. The newCisco UCS CPA V2improves both performance and capacity featuring Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 family of processors, industry leading storage density, and industry's first transparent cache acceleration for Big Data.

The Cisco UCS CPA v2 offers a choice of infrastructure options, including "Performance Optimized", "Balanced", "Capacity Optimized", and "Capacity Optimized with Flash" to support a range of workload needs.

Up to 160 servers (3200 cores, 7.6PB storage) are supported in single switching/UCS domain. Scaling beyond 160 servers can be implemented by interconnecting multiple UCS domains using Nexus 6000/7000 Series switches, scalable to thousands of servers and to hundreds of petabytes storage, and managedfroma single pane using UCS Central in a data center or distributed globally.

The Cisco UCS CPA v2 solutions are available throughCisco UCS Solution Accelerator Paksprogram designed for rapid deployments, tested and validated for performance, and optimized for cost of ownership: Performance Optimized half-rack (UCS-SL-CPA2-P) ideal for MPP databases and scale-out data analytics, Performance and Capacity Balanced rack (UCS-SL-CPA2-PC) ideal for high performance Hadooop and NoSQL deployments, Capacity Optimized rack (UCS-SL-CPA2-C)  when capacity matters, and Capacity Optimized with Flash rack (UCS-SL-CPA2-CF)  offers industry's first transparent caching option for Hadoop and NoSQL. Start with any configuration and scale as your workload demands.

Cisco supports leading Hadoop and NoSQL distributions, includingCloudera, HortonWorks, Intel, MapR, Oracle, Pivotaland others.For more information visit Cisco Big Data Portal, and Big Data Design Zone that offers Cisco Validated Designs (CVD)  -pretested and validated architectures that accelerate the time to value for customers while reducing risks and deployment challenges.

Additional Information

Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture Version 2 for Big Data
Cisco Launches the First Flash-Enhanced Solution for Hadoop
Simplifying the Deployment of Real-time Big Data Analytics - UCS + SAP HANA

Also see Maximizing Big Data Benefits with MapR and Informatica on Cisco UCS