One Year Later: Questioning Cisco UCS

February 19, 2010 By 5 Comments

It has been nearly a year since Cisco shook up the IT infrastructure world with their unified computing system (UCS) server line. UCS is an important infrastructure element and deserves the continuing attention it has received, but questions about the product and its place in the market continue to be raised.

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Cisco Launching Full Assault On Data Center Server Market

June 4, 2009 By 2 Comments
Cisco's new C-Series of rackmount servers

In case you were wondering, Cisco isn’t playing games with the Unified Computing System. Their aim is to take on IBM, HP, and Dell and become a major player in the data center server market.

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Cisco C-Series: UCS Without The Blades

June 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Cisco today announced a new Unified Computing System (UCS) server form factor: The C-Series rack-mount server. The C-Series features the same features found in the existing B-Series UCS blades but starts much smaller and cheaper. Cisco hopes to extend the UCS vision into small businesses, remote offices, and other locations where a blade server chassis would not make sense.

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