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Cisco Refreshes UCS B440 M2 and B230 M2 with Intel Xeon E7

Published on April 5, 2011 By Kevin Houston

Cisco announced today the refresh of their UCS B440 M2 and B230 blade servers with the newly announced Intel Xeon E7. 

4 Socket Blade Servers Density: Vendor Comparison (2011)

Published on February 28, 2011 By Kevin Houston

Revised with corrections  3/1/2011 10:29 a.m. (EST) Almost a year ago, I wrote an article highlighting the 4 socket blade server offerings.  At that time, the offerings were very slim, but over the past 11 months, that blog post has received the most hits, so I figured it’s time to revise the article.  In today’s [...]

Rumour? New 8 Port Cisco Fabric Extender for UCS

Published on April 12, 2010 By Kevin Houston

I recently heard a rumour that Cisco was coming out with an 8 port Fabric Extender (FEX) for the UCS 5108, so I thought I’d take some time to see what this would look like.  NOTE: this is purely speculation, I have no definitive information from Cisco so this may be false info. Before we discuss [...]

Cisco's UCS Software

Published on October 9, 2009 By Kevin Houston

eWeek recently posted snapshots of Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) Software on their site: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/LABS-GALLERY-Cisco-UCS-Unified-Computing-System-Software-199462/?kc=rss Take a good look at the software because the software is the reason this blade system will be successful because they are treating the physical blades as a resource – just CPUs, memory and I/O.  “What” the server should be [...]