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Cisco Introduces Rackmount Servers

Posted by samzenpus on from the rack-'em-up dept.

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."

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  1. Sorry Cisco by DigiShaman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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    1. Re:Sorry Cisco by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      This market is already cornered by the likes of Dell, HP, and VMWare.

      One of the things that Cisco gains by doing this is the elimination of their need to re-label HP Proliant servers for their IP telephony server products, and there are many very large companies that use such, have standardized on Cisco hardware, and will buy them.