I read an interesting article in the Channel Register written by Timothy Pricket Morgan today. In his article - Cisco California pricing revealed, $3,000 for a blade with no innards he attempts to position UCS as a horribly overpriced system where Cisco is egregiously marking up components. A pretty strong statement from his article is listed [...]
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Confusion about Cisco UCS pricing – Setting the Record Straight
June 13th, 2009 · No Comments · CISCO, Cisco B Series Blades, Cisco UCS B200, Cisco UCS B250, Cisco Unified Computing System, Cisco Unified Computing System Managerm UCSM, Paginated, cloud computing
Tags: CISCO·Data Center·Fabric Extender·FCOE·FEX·Fibre Channel·hosting·Network·Power·Server·Technology·UCS·Unified Computing System·virtualization·vmware
Simplifying your Data Center with Cisco’s Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender (FEX)
January 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments · CISCO, NX-OS, Nexus 2000, Nexus 5000, Nexus 7000, Unified Computing, nexus 1000v
The Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender is Cisco’s newest addition to the Nexus line of Data Center switching products. In this case, even though it is an addition to the Nexus line, the 2000 is not a switch itself. The Nexus 2000 is what is known as a Fabric Extender, which works in conjunction with the [...]
Tags: CISCO·Fabric Extender·FEX·Nexus 2000
