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Entries Tagged as 'virtualization'

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

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

Cisco releases Nexus 1000V virtual switch for VMware

September 16th, 2008 · 7 Comments · CISCO, cloud computing, DC3.0, Nexus 7000, vmware

This afternoon Cisco released a new member of the Nexus family of switches, the Nexus 1000V. This is the first switch to take advantage of VMware opening up their ESX and ESXi platforms to for third party network device manufacturers. This switch directly address some pretty big pain points surrounding current virtualization implementations. The boundary [...]

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