Cisco, IBM Announce New Partnership, Network Device

karthik_r085 writes "According to Washington Technology, Integrators considering server blade technology to simplify data center architectures stand to benefit from today's partnering announcement by Cisco Systems Inc. and IBM Corp. The companies introduced a combined solution that integrates Cisco switches and IBM blade servers into one unit to help speed deployment and manage data center costs."

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Points of failure?

[WizzleWizzleWizzle]

First Post, Bitches... (for me anyway... been lurkin for like 5 years... yikes, I've wasted my life)

How do I figure this into my points of failure?

I guess it doesn't change my "point of failure" count any.

Server = Single point of failure
Network box = Single point of failure

Combo box = Single point of failure

Cosmic...

(I realize that you don't generally use just one blade server so its probably not a SPF, but humor me here, I'm tired)

In most systems I can lose my server or my network appliance. Now IBM and Cisco have given me the ability to lose them both at the same time. Hooray!

I realize that the Tivoli provisioning software can reroute traffic, but just because I lose my network box doesn't mean I should also lose my server. Seems like a waste, but the Press Release... err... story didn't give great details.

Perhaps I am wrong here, but this seems wrong somehow. Or maybe I AM looking at it all wrong and if every machine had network infrastructure built in all of the naughty bits of network hardware could go away... hmmm... a better world may still exist.

- WWW

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Re:Actually a 3-company partnership

[gareth6889]

Congrats. you mentioned linux

woo hoo

Re:In Soviet Russia... (FP)

[Anonymous Coward]

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