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."

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Cisco....

[snowblind]

...jumped the shark when the changed to the "cute" logo. Now this is just them introducing a smart mouthed kid to make us chuckle until they end up in re-run hell.

What do you do when you're at the top of your market share and can't innovate to come up with something else and you've bought up every home market vendor?

Crash in on a new commodity market with an overpriced product; while maybe considered a caddilac, sell it at Mercedes prices.

All the while Juniper's chomping at your heals in your traditional space with a rock solid product and chipping away.