This I really like. Cisco has been watching the blogsphere, and is actively seeking to engage the online community and facilate an industry discussion about the future shape of the datacenter. As you probably don’t know Cisco has entered the blade market – but UCS is soooo much more than “just another blade with the word virtualization” tag to it. It’s also revolution in networking & storage – with convergence of networking – so you have one network for storage and regular network traffic. This substantially reduces complexity and density of cabling. But its soooo much more than that. Rather than 1 management system per blade as so many of the older OEM provide. You have single console to manage many enclosures as single entity. That console includes a view of the blades, the LAN and storage network – additionally they thing called “server profiles” which are analogies to vSphere4 new “host profiles”. A drag & drop configuration tool.

Anyway, check out the Cisco Video here where Wendy Mars of Cisco answers some of the obivious questions that UCS flags up.

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