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Datacenter in a box

By On February 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment

HP shrink the data centers with their new launched “box”. This “box” is a containerized data center which price starts at about 600.000$ without the inside equipment. How useful and how many customers will attract HP with this product we will see in the future, but for now if you have enough money to spend on such thing, you can have your own datacenter in your backyard.

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Cisco, EMC unveil data center joint venture

By On November 4, 2009 · 2 Comments

Cisco and EMC this week unveiled their anticipated collaboration, which will provide integrated products and services for customers building private cloud computing infrastructures.

The partnership, which also includes virtualization software vendor VMware, is set up in two parts: one is a Virtual Computing Environment coalition to develop the new products; the other is a joint venture, called Acadia, to train customers and partners on how to install and use the products.

Cisco and EMC are lead investors in Acadia, while VMware and Intel are minority [...]

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Cisco adds rack server to data center computing system

By On June 4, 2009 · 2 Comments

Cisco this week extended its Unified Computing System data center convergence platform with rack mountable servers, saying the new form factor represents an “entry level” into UCS and more choice for customers.

Cisco, however, did not disclose pricing for the 1RU and 2RU servers, which will be available in the fourth quarter.

The new C-Series rack-mount servers are designed to help accelerate the adoption of the Cisco unified computing and data center virtualization system. Like the predecessor B-Series blades, the C-Series rack mount servers utilize [...]

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Cisco Hosts Customer Webcast: Cisco Transforms the Data Center

By On March 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Cisco will host a webcast presentation to discuss its strategy for transforming the data center.

Join John Chambers, chairman and chief executive officer, Cisco; Sue Bostrom, executive vice president and chief marketing officer; Rob Lloyd, executive vice president-designate of Worldwide Operations, and other Cisco executives for this online Internet event.

Date: Monday, March 16, 2009

Time: 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. PT

To attend, register at: Cisco Transforms the Data Center

Read the full story on cisco.com…

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Cisco’s data-center push holds promise, perils

By On March 11, 2009 · 1 Comment

Cisco’s move into the heart of data centers, expected to be laid out at an event next Monday, holds the promise of easing a big IT headache but may also escalate competition between the company and its partners.

The networking giant is widely expected to announce an entry into the blade server market, codenamed “California,” at the Monday event, though the company’s brief press invitation referred only to a concept Cisco calls “Unified Computing.” In a recent blog posting, Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior described [...]

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