Comments on: Curse You, UCS

By: Maarten Plesman

Maarten Plesman — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:25:22 +0000

I have never before read any article on linkedIn. but somehow this showed at the top of my log in screen in LinkedIn (well done by them i guess) and the ‘Curse You’ proved irresistable. well done

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By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:05:10 +0000

Welcome to 2005, Cisco. Good humor here, but a real curse is warranted at UCS for causing HP to pull its servers from the Cisco MCS series. I really love chosing a platform for my customers that is EoS one month after it’s released.

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By: Jose F. Medeiros

Jose F. Medeiros — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:26:00 +0000

Good point.. I’ll stick with Avaya and Microsoft Unified Messaging.

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By: Mitch Kumar

Mitch Kumar — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:25:10 +0000

Catchy title, and a unique way to draw readers to your blog. Excellent work!

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By: Wendy Hower

Wendy Hower — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 03:24:10 +0000

What a kick! You had me hooked at “Curse You”, and I had to read on…Thanks for the laughs!

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By: Douglas Alger

Douglas Alger — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:10:05 +0000

Thanks everyone for the kind words.

I regularly host Data Center tours at Cisco headquarters and during the walkthroughs I proudly show the network substations in our legacy spaces and talk at length about how they helped us effectively manage our cabling infrastructure.

I then somewhat ruefully explain that they’re now obsolete thanks to UCS. After years of watching the latest and greatest server models put more pressure on Data Center physical infrastructure (greater power consumption, greater heat density, more cabling), it’s refreshing to have UCS arrive and do the opposite.

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By: Mark Moffett

Mark Moffett — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:10:38 +0000

Very clever hook Douglas! I was prepared to argue for the best compute solution on the market…you validated one of the DC teams quick wins:)

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By: Biswajit Jena

Biswajit Jena — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:51:27 +0000

Really funny. I saw it in linked in and browsed to this page. Awesome.

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By: Rohan Abey

Rohan Abey — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:36:25 +0000

Saw this on Linkedin and posted it onwards..good story. Nice way to get people to your blog

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By: Richard Lee

Richard Lee — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:28:20 +0000

That’s funny. Good Humor.

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