With the Launch of this So Called Unified Computing Data centers, Cisco’s cat is finally out in open.Now, if we see one side of it,truly indicates the versatility of the biggest networking hardware and peripheral manufacturer in the technology market today.Cleary,this could be a breathtaking step to take advancement in the fruitful and rather bright market of high end enterprise servers Market or also as some says a “clash of the titans” with the Likes Of HP, DELL etc.Mainly HP,as there were rumours about cisco entering into server business just to show HP what they are capable of.
As posted in this gigaom.com article, about the startups HP should buy in view to counter attack cisco’s foray into server market.Though after a series of speculation, bloggers at cisco trying to clarify their entry into a whole new market as an innovative approach. Cisco Blog says – Unified Computing is not going to be a single-vendor closed system for the entire data center. We are not advocating going and doing a forklift upgrade or rip/replace on existing data centers customers have.
Lines from Cisco Blog - Virtualization made this Unified Computing market possible. It also made the test and qualification of 1000’s of applications (a traditional barrier to entry created by the incumbents to justifiably reduce customer risk) much less necessary than before. Virtualization also made the workloads portable, even across vendors, thus we fully expect to be happily inter-operating with other vendors in traditional server markets for many years in the future.
well it was obvious for networking to play an important role in any sort of high end enterprise data center though by evolving 10 gigabits per second ethernet foundation with consolidated access to storage area networks (SAN’s) and network attached storage (NAS) based on a Cisco Blade server w.r.t Future intel nehalem Processor Families (a.k.a future Xeon Server processors) also a patented extended memory technology is surely an amazing treat for a handsome enterprise Data center.
Resulting, lowering of cost by reducing the number of adapters,switches,cables.provding fast connectivity to network storage resources at the same time,also operable by a graphic user interface supporting applications with large data sets and allow significantly more Virtual Machines per server.
Whatever the speculations are,Cisco’s move isnt bad at all. After all, “there’s always a room to try new things or learn newer things” .
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