So What Exactly is a Nexus 4000?

Now this is not a rhetorical question. I want answers, folks, answers! In the past we posed such questions but answered them in the same blog post. I’d like to try a different approach, I would like our blog readers …Read more.

Posted by Kash Shaikh on October 05, 2009 at 08:57PM

New Happenings with FCoE

Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) seems to be a popular topic for the last couple of weeks.  There have been a number of useful posts that I have ran across recently that I thought I would share:   Nigel Poulton …Read more.

Posted by Omar Sultan on September 28, 2009 at 10:19AM

IBM and Cisco Help Customers Adopt FCoE for Unified Fabric

So, we continue to see traction with customers for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)  because IT organizations are beginning to understand both immediate benefits through reduced capital and operating costs (a big incentive in today’s economy) and the longer term …Read more.

Posted by Omar Sultan on July 21, 2009 at 09:23PM

IBM and Cisco Continue to Drive Innovation in the Data Center

Today, IBM announced an extended agreement with Cisco to resell the Cisco Nexus 5000 switch with support for Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) as part of its Dynamic Infrastructure solutions for the data center. Although IBM is not the only …Read more.

Posted by Pamela Ferrill on July 21, 2009 at 09:01PM

FCoE: The Standard is Here

So, after a lot of hard work by a number of individual across the industry, I am happy to say that on June 3rd, the FC-BB-5 working group of T11 has completed its work and unanimously approved a final standard …Read more.

Posted by Omar Sultan on June 04, 2009 at 06:25PM

Wishful Thinking: The CEE Edition

So, before we dig into CEE (Convergence Enhanced Ethernet), I have a quick quiz for you:  take a look at the two pictures below and make note of the differences: Ready? OK, back to the topic at hand…. So, one …Read more.

Posted by Omar Sultan on April 16, 2009 at 01:26PM

Wishful Thinking: The FCoE Edition

Since there are folks out there that would have you believe we will see cold fusion before we see a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) standard, I thought it would be a good time to provide an update, especially because …Read more.

Posted by Omar Sultan on March 12, 2009 at 11:52PM

The Unified Fabric Payoff

So, as I have mentioned before and chatted about with Sidney, we have the Nexus 5000 and unified fabric in production in our Mountain View data center.  We are running the News@Cisco website over it as well as some back-office …Read more.

Posted by Omar Sultan on January 27, 2009 at 09:51AM

The Train Keeps Rolling…

So, a year ago, we kicked off a little party with the launch of the Nexus 7000 and NX-OS.  As you can see, we have been busy year—we have fleshed out the Nexus portfolio with the Nexus 5000 and 1000V, …Read more.

Posted by Omar Sultan on January 27, 2009 at 12:25AM

Cisco Nexus 5000 “seamlessly connects Fibre Channel and Ethernet networks”

Mario Apicella, senior analyst for the InfoWorld Test Center, recently posted the results of his comprehensive test of the Cisco Nexus 5020.  The article provides good insight into the Nexus 5020 in particular and the Nexus family in general.  Of …Read more.

Posted by Omar Sultan on July 29, 2008 at 12:08AM