Colin McNamara – CCIE 18233 , VCP, EMCIE, NCDA, GEEK

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Entries Tagged as 'Nexus'

Cisco EMC and VMware partneship VCE VBlocks Acadia and the Partner Ecosystem

November 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · CISCO, EMC, VBlock

Cisco EMC and VMware announced a joint partnership called the Virtual Computing Environment Coalition (VCE) . The key goal of the VCE is to accelerate customer migration to virtualization and cloud infrastructures. The Virtual Computing Environment will accomplish this in four different ways. VBlock Infrastructure Packages VBlock infrastructure packages are pre-configured bundles that are sized [...]

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Tags: CISCO·EMC·mds·Nexus·nexus 1000v·service provider·storage·UCS·virtualization

Cisco Nexus 4000 Blade Switch

September 29th, 2009 · No Comments · CISCO, Nexus 4000

Cisco’s vision of the unified data center took another step forward today with the announcement of the Nexus 4000 series blade center switches. This switch is another step forward  in Cisco’s view of a true multiprotocol network. What does this mean?  In Cisco’s view of the world this means supporting the transport of Fibre Channel, [...]

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Tags: CEE·certification·CISCO·Data Center·Fabric Extender·Nexus·Nexus 4000·Nexus 7000·NX-OS·switch·Technology·UCS

Cisco Nexus 5010 released

December 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Cisco just released a little brother to the Nexus 5020, the 5010. The 5010 provides the same features as the 5020, but in a 20 port x 10 gig  1ru form factor with one expansion slot. The coolest thing about this chassis is its price. You can get 20 ports of line rate lossless frabric [...]

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Tags: CISCO·FCOE·Nexus·nexus 5010