Comments on: Cisco Launching Full Assault On Data Center Server Market http://gestaltit.com/featured/top/stephen/cisco-assault-data-center-server/ Independent Experts United Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:24:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DeepStorage http://gestaltit.com/featured/top/stephen/cisco-assault-data-center-server/comment-page-1/#comment-580 DeepStorage Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:32:08 +0000 http://gestaltit.com/?p=896#comment-580 I find it amusing that the same members of the chattering class, excluding of course thee and me, that wrote a year ago how Dell isn't a serious player in the server market because they only have x86 servers with 1-4 sockets say Cisco's UCS servers are the best thing since sliced bread. From where I sit on my substantial ass Cisco is shipping next year's servers this year. They've added more memory capacity, although using it slows memory access slightly, and made 10GgigE standard where IBM, HP Dell Etc. have it as an option. Of course in those organizations where the network guys have more clout than the server guys that will be enough.<br><br> - Howard I find it amusing that the same members of the chattering class, excluding of course thee and me, that wrote a year ago how Dell isn't a serious player in the server market because they only have x86 servers with 1-4 sockets say Cisco's UCS servers are the best thing since sliced bread. From where I sit on my substantial ass Cisco is shipping next year's servers this year. They've added more memory capacity, although using it slows memory access slightly, and made 10GgigE standard where IBM, HP Dell Etc. have it as an option. Of course in those organizations where the network guys have more clout than the server guys that will be enough.

– Howard

]]> By: DeepStorage http://gestaltit.com/featured/top/stephen/cisco-assault-data-center-server/comment-page-1/#comment-28 DeepStorage Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:32:08 +0000 http://gestaltit.com/?p=896#comment-28 I find it amusing that the same members of the chattering class, excluding of course thee and me, that wrote a year ago how Dell isn't a serious player in the server market because they only have x86 servers with 1-4 sockets say Cisco's UCS servers are the best thing since sliced bread. From where I sit on my substantial ass Cisco is shipping next year's servers this year. They've added more memory capacity, although using it slows memory access slightly, and made 10GgigE standard where IBM, HP Dell Etc. have it as an option. Of course in those organizations where the network guys have more clout than the server guys that will be enough.<br><br> - Howard I find it amusing that the same members of the chattering class, excluding of course thee and me, that wrote a year ago how Dell isn't a serious player in the server market because they only have x86 servers with 1-4 sockets say Cisco's UCS servers are the best thing since sliced bread. From where I sit on my substantial ass Cisco is shipping next year's servers this year. They've added more memory capacity, although using it slows memory access slightly, and made 10GgigE standard where IBM, HP Dell Etc. have it as an option. Of course in those organizations where the network guys have more clout than the server guys that will be enough.

– Howard

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