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(UPDATED) Officially Announced: IBM’s Nexus 4000 Switch: 4001I (PART 2)

Published on October 21, 2009 By Kevin Houston

I’ve gotten a lot of response from my first post, “REVEALED: IBM’s Nexus 4000 Switch: 4001I” and more information is coming out quickly so I decided to post a part 2. IBM officially announced the switch on October 20, 2009, so here’s some additional information: The Nexus 4001I Switch for the IBM BladeCenter is part [...]

How IBM's BladeCenter works with Cisco Nexus 5000

Published on October 1, 2009 By Kevin Houston

Cisco Nexus 4000 switch for blade chassis environments, I thought it would be good to discuss how IBM is able to connect blade servers via 10Gb Datacenter Ethernet (or Converged Enhanced Ethernet) to a Cisco Nexus 5000. Other than Cisco’s UCS offering, IBM is currently the only blade vendor who offers a Converged Network Adapter (CNA) for the [...]