Comments on: Can Open Converged Infrastructure Compete? http://gigaom.com/2010/10/10/can-open-converged-infrastructure-compete-2/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:42:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Cisco Claims 4,000 Server Customers: Cloud Computing News « http://gigaom.com/2010/10/10/can-open-converged-infrastructure-compete-2/#comment-598648 Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:17:41 +0000 http://cloud.gigaom.com/?p=1159#comment-598648 [...] Cisco isn’t alone in converged infrastructure success. Egenera, a company that takes a somewhat more-open approach to unified systems management, last week reported its best financial year ever. It has been selling its PAN Manager software and [...]

]]> By: Randy Bias http://gigaom.com/2010/10/10/can-open-converged-infrastructure-compete-2/#comment-303297 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:45:14 +0000 http://cloud.gigaom.com/?p=1159#comment-303297 Derrick,

I can show you some of the information, but no, it’s a base configuration. You can’t buy most of the gear for less than 200K. For example, an EMC CX4-120 in the smallest configuration possible is at least 300K. The Forrester #s are wrong.

I would be happy to walk you through what I have if you want to see it.

]]> By: Derrick Harris http://gigaom.com/2010/10/10/can-open-converged-infrastructure-compete-2/#comment-303118 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:27:06 +0000 http://cloud.gigaom.com/?p=1159#comment-303118 From what I understand, these were for base configurations, not including additional software or service. Could that explain the difference?

]]> By: Randy Bias http://gigaom.com/2010/10/10/can-open-converged-infrastructure-compete-2/#comment-303117 Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:43:23 +0000 http://cloud.gigaom.com/?p=1159#comment-303117 The proposals I saw for VBlocks were 2.25M and IBM CloudBurst was 1.75M. Not sure where Forrester got their numbers. The Cisco switch gear alone is more than 200K.

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