The Cisco® Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) combines Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers and C-Series Rack Servers with networking and storage access in a single converged system that simplifies management and delivers greater cost efficiency and agility with increased visibility and control. One of the latest additions to the Cisco UCS portfolio is the Cisco UCS B420 M3 Blade Server.

Designed for enterprise performance and scalability the Cisco UCS B420 M3 Blade Server combines the advantages of 4-socket computing with the cost-effective Intel® Xeon® processor E5-4600 and E5-4600 v2 product family for demanding virtualization and database workloads. With its industry-leading compute density I/O bandwidth and memory footprint the Cisco UCS B420 M3 is a balanced high-performance platform that complements the Cisco UCS 4-socket blade server portfolio.

The Cisco UCS B420 M3 is a full-width blade. Up to four of these high-density 4-socket blade servers can reside in the six-rack-unit (6RU) Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis. In addition the Cisco UCS B420 M3 is part of the Cisco Unified Computing System which combines blade and rack servers with networking and storage access in a single unified system. Centrally configured through unified model-based management Cisco UCS simplifies and accelerates deployment of enterprise-class applications running in bare-metal virtualized and cloud-computing environments.