Comments on: Cisco's Data Center Play Reinvents The Server

By: Cisco Claims 4,000 Server Customers: Cloud Computing News «

Cisco Claims 4,000 Server Customers: Cloud Computing News « — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:17:37 +0000

[...] System server business has only been shipping since summer 2009, and that buying and deploying UCS isn’t exactly the same process as with commodity machines. The number suggests that many organizations are buying into the promise of converged [...]

By: Why Is Storage So Hot? Cisco Provides a Clue.: Cloud «

Why Is Storage So Hot? Cisco Provides a Clue.: Cloud « — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:00:35 +0000

[...] March of 2009, Cisco launched its Unified Computing System, or UCS for short. It signaled to other data center equipment vendors that the separation between [...]

By: From M&A to R&D, Cloud is Driving IT Activity

From M&A to R&D, Cloud is Driving IT Activity — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:02:58 +0000

[...] every vendor is buying its way into the cloud game, though. Cisco famously built its own Unified Computing System server lineup, and has partnered with VMware and EMC to fill out the virtualization and storage components of the [...]

By: SeaMicro’s Low-Power Server Finally Launches

SeaMicro’s Low-Power Server Finally Launches — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:07:11 +0000

[...] behind an increasing number of websites people visit on a daily basis. Other companies such as Cisco (scsco), Smooth Stone and even ARM are hoping to do the same thing (SeaMicro’s servers can run on [...]

By: Why Private Clouds Are a Catch-22 for Buyers

Why Private Clouds Are a Catch-22 for Buyers — Wed, 12 May 2010 23:01:35 +0000

[...] buys Citrix? What if I build a data center full of HP servers and Cisco switches only to see Cisco enter the server market and cut ties with HP? What if I bet my application environment on a startup (or Sun Microsystems) [...]

By: HP Buys 3Com to Play Cisco’s Server Game

HP Buys 3Com to Play Cisco’s Server Game — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:52:50 +0000

[...] $2.7 billion — a deal that seeks to put HP on better competitive footing against Cisco and its server efforts. HP and the rest of the computing industry have struggled to come up with an answer to what Cisco [...]

By: Exclusive: EMC Compute Cloud Coming This Month

Exclusive: EMC Compute Cloud Coming This Month — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:55:37 +0000

[...] to a vendor working with the storage giant on the project. The computing cloud will be built on Cisco’s Unified Computing System gear, which makes sense given that EMC is a big partner in Cisco’s server efforts. Neither EMC , [...]

By: Dell Teams Up With Brocade to Tackle Cisco’s Vision for Computing

Dell Teams Up With Brocade to Tackle Cisco’s Vision for Computing — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:12:23 +0000

[...] PM PT | 0 comments Dell has signed partnership agreements with Brocade and Scalent to answer the threat posed by Cisco’s servers and the need to create a computing environment that can handle virtualized servers, networking and [...]

By: Are Competitors Eating Into Cisco’s Core?

Are Competitors Eating Into Cisco’s Core? — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:05:03 +0000

[...] is not going to be easy competitor for Cisco as it is one of the few companies to have the similar comm-puting (communications-based computing) view of the IT landscape as Cisco. (Related: How HP can fight Cisco and win.) With further competition from the likes of Dell and [...]

By: Why Cisco Should Buy Dell

Why Cisco Should Buy Dell — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:02:00 +0000

[...] into one of HP’s traditional markets with the launch of its own enterprise servers, dubbed the Unified Computing System. That prompted HP to retaliate by inking a deal with Riverbed, long one of Cisco’s data [...]

By: Cisco & IBM: A-Rod & Derek Jeter of Tech?

Cisco & IBM: A-Rod & Derek Jeter of Tech? — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:16:54 +0000

[...] where Cisco Systems and IBM and are locked in a battle royale. The two enterprise giants are competing with each other thanks to Cisco’s decision to enter the server business, one from which IBM makes billions of [...]

By: IBM Fires Juniper-Loaded Salvo at Cisco

IBM Fires Juniper-Loaded Salvo at Cisco — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:49:38 +0000

[...] move is a direct response to Cisco’s creation of its own brand of servers it calls the Unified Computing System, as well as efforts by Hewlett-Packard to bring that company’s ProCurve networking gear closer to [...]

By: GigOM: IBM Fires Juniper Salvo at Cisco « The Technology Life

GigOM: IBM Fires Juniper Salvo at Cisco « The Technology Life — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:03:55 +0000

[...] The move is a direct response to Cisco’s creation of its own brand of servers it calls the Unified Computing System, as well as efforts by Hewlett-Packard to bring that company’s ProCurve networking gear closer to [...]

By: IBM Fires Juniper Salvo at Cisco

IBM Fires Juniper Salvo at Cisco — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:41:14 +0000

By: Cisco Shows Off Its Hit List

Cisco Shows Off Its Hit List — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:57:12 +0000

[...] as having four layers, with the bottommost layer being the hardware infrastructure provided by Cisco’s new servers. The top three are the more traditional infrastructure-as-a-service offerings, platforms as a [...]

By: Google: The Data Center Is the Computer

Google: The Data Center Is the Computer — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:48:14 +0000

[...] hardware gets a boost here, which doesn’t bode well for Cisco’s (c csco) new blade servers or IBM’s efforts to create specialized hardware for different workloads in the cloud. The [...]