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Entries Tagged as 'Fibre Channel'

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, cloud computing, Paginated

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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Tags: CISCO·Data Center·Fabric Extender·FCOE·FEX·Fibre Channel·hosting·Network·Power·Server·Technology·UCS·Unified Computing System·virtualization·vmware

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-05

June 5th, 2008 · No Comments · san diego, Technology, Uncategorized, wordpress

Nexus 5020 – Consolidated 10 Gig Ethernet and 4 Gig Fibre Channel: Cisco released an addition to th.. http://tinyurl.com/5ujn7c # UPDATE  – Sorry for the RSS spam, I have been playing with twitter (and frankly am failing to see its draw) and setup twitter tools to integrate my blog with my twitter microblog. I apparently [...]

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Tags: blog·C·CISCO·Colin·error·Fibre Channel·Nexus·Nexus 5020·Technology·twitter

Nexus 5020 – Consolidated 10 Gig Ethernet and 4 Gig Fibre Channel

April 9th, 2008 · No Comments · CCIE, CCIE Storage, CISCO, DC3.0, Technology, Uncategorized

Cisco released an addition to their Nexus series data center switching line, the Nexus 5020. The Nexus 5020 packs 1.04 terrabit of switching capacity into a 2 ru top of rack chassis. Inside this chassis you have 40 10 Gig Ethernet ports, as well as modular slots that can accept 12 extra 10 Gig ports, [...]

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