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, Fibre [...]
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Cisco Nexus 4000 Blade Switch
September 29th, 2009 · No Comments · CISCO, Nexus 4000
Tags: CEE·certification·CISCO·Data Center·Fabric Extender·Nexus·Nexus 4000·Nexus 7000·NX-OS·switch·Technology·UCS
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
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 [...]
Tags: CISCO·Data Center·Fabric Extender·FCOE·FEX·Fibre Channel·hosting·Network·Power·Server·Technology·UCS·Unified Computing System·virtualization·vmware
Cisco introduces the C-Series Rack Servers
June 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment · B-Series
Cisco announced the expansion of its server offering today with the inclusion of the C-Series 19″ rack form factor servers. These servers will ship in the fall of the 2009. This announcement rounds out Cisco’s server product line, allowing customers the to choose between a range of options including the B-series blade center form factor Unified Compute System and the C-Series 19″ rack form factor servers.
