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Cisco Introduces Rackmount Servers
1sockchuck writes "After shaking up the market for blade servers, Cisco Systems is launching a line of rackmount servers. But the company says its ambitions are more targeted than a full-scale 'all your racks are belong to us' assault on the volume server market. Cisco says it sees its 1U and 2U C-Series rackmount servers as offering an entry point to its Unified Computing System vision for companies who've built their data centers using rackmount servers instead of blades. But it thinks many customers will like the expanded memory capacity Cisco has built into the Xeon 5500/Nehalem EP processor."
More RAM isn't a big deal - the 5500 series from everybody else goes up to 172GB now, and will be at least double that soon. That's plenty for now.
The density is only 1/4th that of HP's new DL1000 (video).
Interconnect is what gives these Cisco servers their shine.
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You're thinking of crisco
Good luck Cisco, you're entering a cut throat market with well established hardware vendors in a global recession... You've either got a large pair of brass balls or you're just really really stupid.
is cisco not a well established hardware vendor? http://www.thestreet.com/story/10508379/1/tech-rumor-of-the-day-juniper-cisco.html
It'll require an expensive support contract just to load any software on it or add any new hardware to it.
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You're a day late and a dollar short.
This market is already cornered by the likes of Dell, HP, and VMWare. Feel free to try in the market place however, but I think it's a big waste of your capitol and R&D.
You're wrong. What cisco is doing is upping the memory to CPU ratio in a very small physical footprint. This is phenominally valuable for virtualized environments or for HPC environments for any host of reasons that are obvious if you understand enterprise computing. There is not a single hardware vendor out there that has server hardware that comes close to what Cisco is now providing with the UCS platform. Show me the Dell or HP system that can have 384GB of RAM. Cisco is a big VMware partner and they are not trying to compete with VMware, they are trying to become the preferred hardware platform for VMware environments.