Cisco Nexus 4001I Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter

On my previous blog post “What exactly is a Nexus 4000?” there were many questions/comments around OEM blade server vendors and details of Nexus 4000 Series Blade Switches . Today, IBM announced the details of the Cisco Nexus 4000 blade switch for their …Read more.

Posted by Kash Shaikh on October 20, 2009 at 05:27PM

Real Life Data Center 3.0 Deployments – A University

We’ve been talking about Cisco Data Center 3.0 vision & strategy for a while now. How Cisco Data Center 3.0 provides a granular, multi-phase journey for transforming data center to meet the evolving needs of the business with a strategy …Read more.

Posted by Kash Shaikh on June 18, 2009 at 05:33PM

Is HP Now a Friend or Foe of Cisco?

While I’ve seen a lot of kudos of our innovative Unified Computing System announcement in the last two weeks, I have been concerned by some of the “Cisco declaration of war” theme coverage. As someone here at Cisco, who has …Read more.

Posted by Kash Shaikh on March 27, 2009 at 09:05AM

The Unified Computing Story, or ‘Cisco’s History in the Data Center’

With our announcement of our Unified Computing System on Monday, I wanted to provide a little bit of the historical context of how Cisco got into the data center technology space: A lot of people say it started with the …Read more.

Posted by Douglas Gourlay on March 18, 2009 at 08:01AM

Where does Unified Computing Makes Sense for IT?

Yesterday I had a question get asked often enough that we felt it best to answer it on our blog:  where should I deploy Unified Computing Systems?  We see four main opportunities for unified computing in the near-term: 1) Greenfield …Read more.

Posted by Douglas Gourlay on March 17, 2009 at 02:33PM

Cisco’s Unified Computing System Debuts

It has been hard sitting by and watching the rumor mill go into overdrive but we are finally ready to take the wraps off our innovative new system for the data center … Cisco’s Unified Computing System.  Cisco talked previously …Read more.

Posted by Elizabeth McNichols on March 16, 2009 at 08:03AM

Key Points on ‘Cisco Blade Servers’ or Unified Computing

Sometimes we can’t get everything we want to say in a press release, like our recent Cisco Unified Computing announcement.  This is a collection of a few points that seem to get lost in translation/distillation that we wanted to ensure …Read more.

Posted by Douglas Gourlay on March 16, 2009 at 07:30AM

Building a Better Blade Server - Network Style….

I’ve been asked a lot about why would Cisco build a blade server recently. I don’t know where these rumors and speculation come from. But notwithstanding I thought I would write out the answers I usually give.  1) Cisco is …Read more.

Posted by Douglas Gourlay on March 12, 2009 at 11:33AM

Cisco—market leader in blade switches??

As a solution to address power, space & complexity within the data center, many data center IT managers are increasingly turning to blade servers. One of these customers, a Silicon Valley neighbor to Cisco, is LiveOps, which provides a SaaS …Read more.

Posted by Kash Shaikh on October 14, 2008 at 08:04PM