Cisco Champion Radio

Energy-hungry and heat-generating data -center servers and switches draw up to 2 percent of all electricity in the United States alone, and energy consumption can represent up to 30 percent of data center costs. There is a focus on greater data center sustainability and optimizing energy usage should be a major concern for all forward-looking organizations. With Cisco Nexus Dashboard, the goal is to empower customers to achieve more energy efficient data centers, forecast energy consumption, emissions and costs, while meeting the ever-increasing operational requirements of their datacenter applications.

Learn more:

www.cisco.com/go/nexusdashboard

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/data-center-analytics/nexus-dashboard/datasheet-c78-744371.html?ccid=cc001903&oid=dstdnc023706

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-https://community.meraki.com/t5/Cloud-Security-SD-WAN/New-to-vMX-Start-here/m-p/202525#M95

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