Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior: "We're going to compete with HP. I don't want to sugarcoat that."Looks like Cisco wants to do to data centers what Apple did to cellphones with its iPhone.
In this tight economy it is but natural that once partners will elbow into each other's space. But that is the cynical view to take. This is a story in innovation. As to how it will play out, we will have to wait and watch.
Tech companies like Amazon and Oracle have swam upstream in this dire economy. And now Cisco has come up with a major announcement. This will boost the morale of the larger economy. Otherwise it feels like there is bad news on every page of the newspaper.
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The Linux part of Cisco's Unified Computing System Computerworld
Cisco's Unified Computing Vision - Is It Too Much Cisco? InformationWeek
Cisco's Unified Computing system ITworld.com
Cisco's Unified Computing System stirs competition, old and new Search Networking
One Cisco Unified Computing System beats 15 coal-fired energy plants ZDNet A single Cisco chassis can hold as many as eight blade servers. A “networking fabric extender” can tie together 40 such chassis, bringing 320 servers under the control and supervision of Cisco’s Unified Computing System Manager software. ...... Every second, Web users view 1,200 videos on YouTube, share 11,000 songs and send 2,000,000 emails. This plus the equivalent of 3,000,000 trees turned into paper and printed can fit in the system memory of one Cisco Unified Computing System. ........ All 138,893,908 Individual Tax returns filed last year in the United States could be stored in the memory of one Cisco Unified Computing System. ....... It takes only 40% of the Cisco UCS’s system resources to host all of the US Wikipedia. ...... The amount of obsolete cabling and support infrastructure that could be eliminated equates to 3,007 miles of legacy servers and infrastructure, when set side by side. ......... 31,103,864,053 Kilowatt hours per year saved, by unifying aging traditional servers and supporting infrastructure. .......
Cisco's Unified Computing system ITworld.com
Cisco, Red Hat to bring unified computing system to Malaysia NetworkWorld.com
Cisco's Unified Computing System CIO Weblog
Startup Looks to Challenge Cisco, HP in Data Center eWeek
Cisco and VMware Enhance Virtualization with Powerful, Scalable ... PR-CANADA.net (press release)
Cisco and VMware Enhance Virtualization with Powerful, Scalable ... PR-CANADA.net (press release)
One Cisco Unified Computing System beats 15 coal-fired energy plants ZDNet A single Cisco chassis can hold as many as eight blade servers. A “networking fabric extender” can tie together 40 such chassis, bringing 320 servers under the control and supervision of Cisco’s Unified Computing System Manager software. ...... Every second, Web users view 1,200 videos on YouTube, share 11,000 songs and send 2,000,000 emails. This plus the equivalent of 3,000,000 trees turned into paper and printed can fit in the system memory of one Cisco Unified Computing System. ........ All 138,893,908 Individual Tax returns filed last year in the United States could be stored in the memory of one Cisco Unified Computing System. ....... It takes only 40% of the Cisco UCS’s system resources to host all of the US Wikipedia. ...... The amount of obsolete cabling and support infrastructure that could be eliminated equates to 3,007 miles of legacy servers and infrastructure, when set side by side. ......... 31,103,864,053 Kilowatt hours per year saved, by unifying aging traditional servers and supporting infrastructure. .......
This could:
- Double the available electricity in the ten poorest countries worldwide increasing education, healthcare, and overall standard of living.
- Equal the energy output of more than 15 U.S. coal-fired electric plants and 35 million tons of C02.
- Almost equal the entire amount of wind energy produced in U.S.
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Is Cisco really going to take on Apple? Not quite.
ZDNet - Mar 20, 2009
Cisco’s acquisition of Pure Digital, maker of the Flip camcorder, has sparked a lot of discussion about the networking giant’s intentions. ...
Cisco Flips Over Pure Digital New York Times
Cisco Needs BMC To Supply Unified Virtual Management
InformationWeek - Mar 19, 2009
At stake is Cisco's blade server, which will combine converged network components, then link to virtualized network and store resources under a single ...
Cisco Pushes Into Server Computer Market New York Times
Cisco Enters Data Center Market With Virtual Servers CNNMoney.com
Cisco, Red Hat to bring unified computing system to Malaysia
NetworkWorld.com - Mar 20, 2009
"UCS will result in a unified architecture tantamount to next generation data centres: data centre 3.0," said Cisco Malaysia managing director Anne Abraham. ...
Cisco's Unified Computing system ITworld.com
Cisco's consumer electronics dream
CNET News - Mar 20, 2009
by Marguerite Reardon If you haven't noticed, Cisco Systems, whose products have been used to build the Internet for 20 years, has spent the past 6 years ...
CISCO ADDS TO MEDIA-ENABLED HOME WITH NEW LINKSYS BY CISCO DUAL ... Home Toys (press release)
BusinessWeek’s Burrows: Cisco to battle Apple? Not likely
MacDailyNews - 12 hours ago
"Put me down as a skeptic regarding Cisco’s acquisition yesterday of Pure Digital, the maker of Flip video recorders. In fact, my first thought wasn’t ...
Home IBM Why Is IBM, Not Cisco, Buying Sun?
eWeek - Mar 18, 2009
Cisco Systems, with its ambitions for dominance in the data center, seems like a much better suitor for Sun. Commenting on a pending acquisition is like ...
ibm's Sun Bid Marks Latest Shot In Data Center War CNNMoney.com
Cisco Israel head resigns
Ha'aretz - 2 hours ago
By Amitai Ziv Bina Rezinovsky, the general manager of Cisco Israel, announced her resignation at the end of last week. Rezinovsky, 41, has managed Cisco's ...
Laid-Off Janitors Protest At Cisco Headquarters
CBS 5 - Mar 19, 2009
Read more in our Privacy Policy At least 200 people gathered outside Cisco Systems headquarters in San Jose on Thursday to protest the layoffs of about 75 ...
Fisher: Taking back the economy San Jose Mercury News
Around the Web 3.19.09: Cisco now makes servers, IE8 comes out ...
Los Angeles Times - Mar 19, 2009
Personal Technology -- Cisco Systems released its server computer -- an affront on companies for which it usually provides software. ...
New Search Site Debuts For Business Users InformationWeek
Citigroup, FedEx, Alcoa, Cisco among big movers
The Associated Press - Mar 19, 2009
NASDAQ Cisco Systems Inc., down 27 cents at $16.23 The computer networking gear maker will buy Pure Digital, maker of the popular Flip Video camcorder, ...